[metapost] Bug with in-box test alignment

[luigi scarso]

Il Ven 31 Dic 2021, 19:55 Sebastiano Vigna <sebastiano.vigna at unimi.it> ha
scritto:

>
>
> > On 31 Dec 2021, at 10:50, Sebastiano Vigna <sebastiano.vigna at unimi.it>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 31 Dec 2021, at 10:32, Sebastiano Vigna <sebastiano.vigna at unimi.it>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> No, TexLive 2021 in MacPorts has Metapost 2.00. But it's Metapost 2.00
> on Linux, too. Maybe a different mplib?
> >>
> >
> > Even Fedora rawhide has still Metapost 2.00 with the same bug. Maybe you
> could put some pressure on the package maintainers to update to the new
> version.
>
> In fact, the Tex Live page states
>
> "In the MetaPost 2.00 included in the original TL'21 release, the
> btex..etex construct generated a spurious space. This was fixed in MetaPost
> 2.01, available through post-release network updates. LuaTeX was also
> updated to 1.13.2, since it includes MetaPost as a library (no other
> changes to LuaTeX)."
>
> These post-release network updates are presently not being considered by
> the Fedora maintainers.
>
> Ciao,
>
>                                         seba
>


Indeed.
Can you compile from the sources?
http://www.luatex.org/download.html
Or perhaps the svn repo has the exe that you need:
https://tug.org/texlive/svn/


--
luigi

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