Re: [pretest] regression in pdftex

Hartmut Henkel via tex-live <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:41:15 +0100 (CET)

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Hi,

On Sun, 15 Feb 2026, Karl Berry wrote:
> And the output shows, like your document, every character being placed
> on its own:
>
> .. [(L)]TJ 6.227 0 Td [(o)]TJ 4.981 0 Td [(r)]TJ 3.902 0 Td [(e)]TJ ...
>
> I surmise this is related to Thanh's earlier bug fix (r77326, diff below):

seems in pdftex.web, pdf_begin_string() the variable "must_set_text_pos"
is not initialized. With

begin
    must_insert_space := false;
    must_end_string := false;
    must_set_text_pos := false;

it seems to give multi-char strings.

Best Regards
Hartmut