[texhax] bizarre tikz behavior with recent texlive 2010 updates
Jim Diamond
Jim.Diamond at acadiau.ca
Sat Nov 6 23:10:29 CET 2010
OK, I admit I'm not 100% sure this is the optimal place to report
this, but here goes anyway.
I did
tlmgr update --all
the other day, and after that finished Bad Things started happening.
Boiling it down, here is a minimal non-working example (plain pdftex,
NOT pdflatex):
%------------------------------------
\input tikz
\hrule
\vfill
just a plain line of text in the middle of the page
\vfill
\eject
\end
%------------------------------------
The line claims it is in the middle of the page, but if I \input tikz
it is not. If I don't \input tikz, the line is (more or less) in the
middle of the page, as expected. Also, when I \input tikz, my page
number goes away.
I have a texlive 2010-beta lying around, and I get the expected
behaviour if I use that.
I suppose it is possible that a neutrino clobbered some bit on my
disk. Before I reload all of tl2010 from scratch, could someone let
me know if they see the same behaviour?
Thanks.
Jim
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