another breakage due to LaTeX changes?
Joseph Wright
joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Wed Mar 25 11:57:43 CET 2020
On 25/03/2020 10:47, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi all, in particular LaTeX group,
>
> it seems that some old documents (.dtx) don't translate anymore
> correctly. That might be simply a bug in the old code, but maybe some
> oversight in the LaTeX code.
>
> The attached lgrind.dtx was used and always properly build up to recent
> changes (2020 LaTeX), but now fails with
>> LaTeX2e <2020-02-02> patch level 5
>> L3 programming layer <2020-02-25>
>> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ltxdoc.cls
>> Document Class: ltxdoc 2019/09/16 v2.0y Standard LaTeX documentation class
>> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>> Document Class: article 2019/12/20 v1.4l Standard LaTeX document class
>> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
>> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/doc.sty
>> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/multicol.sty)))
>> Writing index file lgrind.idx
>> Writing glossary file lgrind.glo
>> (./lgrind.dtx
>> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-dvips.def
>>
>> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>>
>> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
>> Type H <return> for immediate help.
>> ...
>>
>> l.2 %% T
>> his is file `l3backend-dvips.def',
>> ?
>> ! Emergency stop.
>
> Since it contains the
> l3backend-dvipds.def
> that was recently introduced, I assume there is some breakage with
> recent LaTeX.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Please keep Cc, thanks!
>
> All the best
>
> Norbert
Hi Norbert,
Where can we find lgrind.dtx?
Joseph
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