On 2006-02-10 23:16:13 -0500, hutch@psfc.mit.edu wrote:
I had an extensive discussion on comp.text.tex with Heiko Oberdiek, most of which is at http://www.codecomments.com/Tex/message784423.html
ANOTHER forum. :-( Is it so difficult to follow the instructions in the pdfTeX REDAME? Please, file a bug for this at sarovar; this will allow us to archive this discussion (\mag et.al) once. Please see also http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-April/000487.html http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-April/000488.html http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-April/000489.html http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-April/000492.html I think I understand your problem, but the pdfTeX team thinks that the current behaviour of pdfTeX (as it was up to 0.13d and is since 1.20a) is the correct one. Changing pdftex.ini should be done by the maintainers of TeX distribution (e.g. teTeX, MikTeX etc.); but that would probably break compatibility with newer documents. Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de