[Aleph] Big in Aleph about \fam

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Monday, January 17, 2005 Benjamin BAYART wrote:


> Hi,

> While using some of the few used extensions of Omega, I found something
> that sounds like being a bug...

> One of the interesting extensions of Omega is to be able to use 16bits
> fonts, and to be able to use 256 math-families instead of 16. The
> modifications work quite right with \omathcode, \textfont, and so on.
> But \fam is buggy. Something like:

> \font\try=ectt1000 at 1cm
> \textfont18=\try
> $ \fam18 x $

> Does not produce the expected result. A single patch in the definition
> of "fam_in_range" in om16bit.ch seems to be enough to solve the problem.

> Hope this helps...

Thanks for signaling this.

> 	Benjamin.

> PS: I'm also looking around about a bug in the DVI files produced by
> Aleph, but I don't have yet enough data about it.

I know of at least one case when the DVI produced is wrong
(more pushes than pops or something like that), but I haven't
been able to corner it to a minimal test case either.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta