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26 May
2020
26 May
'20
3:25 p.m.
Hi Robert, Confirmed here; it seems that pdftex.web L.3779 @d auto_kern == explicit is the culprit. In your proposed MWE, when the function adjust_interword_glue() is called, the tail node is \kern1pt thus (type=kern_node) and (subtype=explicit). However, "@d auto_kern == explicit" is set, it falls through the following conditions. else if (type(p) = kern_node) and (subtype(p) = auto_kern) and (save_tail <> null) then When I change that line to @d auto_kern == 3 {|acc_kern| + 1} the problem is gone. I'm not sure whether there is some side effect. Hironobu Yamashita