Bugs item #115, was opened at 2004-09-11 03:27 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=115&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody (None) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: character protrusion: some characters will not be protruded Initial Comment: Some characters will not be protruded into the right margin, namely: `-', `--', and `---', if entered like that. When they occur as \hyphenchar, or as a single character (e.g. \char123), everything's fine. With the EC fonts, the same happens for some quote characters. Here's a plain TeX file showing the problem: ---------------------------------------------------- \tracingoutput 1 \showboxbreadth \maxdimen \showboxdepth \maxdimen \pdfprotrudechars=2 \hsize10em \def\testprotrusion#1{#1\dotfill #1\penalty-10000} \font\testfont=cmr10\testfont \newcount\charcount \charcount=0 \loop \rpcode\font\charcount=1000 \advance\charcount 1 \ifnum\charcount < 256 \repeat \noindent \testprotrusion{A}% OK \testprotrusion{-}% \testprotrusion{--}% \testprotrusion{---}% \testprotrusion{itworks\-likethis}% \testprotrusion{\char123}% \testprotrusion{\char124}% \font\testfont=ecrm10\testfont \charcount=0 \loop \rpcode\font\charcount=1000 \advance\charcount 1 \ifnum\charcount < 256 \repeat \noindent \testprotrusion{``}% \testprotrusion{''}% \testprotrusion{\char13}% \quotedblbase \testprotrusion{\char18}% \quotesinglbase \testprotrusion{Z}% OK \bye ---------------------------------------------------- I don't know whether that might be related, but in all cases, something is being inserted between the character itself and the right margin by TeX (a discretionary for the dashes, a \kern for the quote characters). (This is the same bug as reported in the dctt thread `Randausgleich von Binde- und Trennstrich', 29.8.04) Regards, Robert. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=115&group_id=106