Re: [XeTeX] Problem with ifpdf switch

2020-07-06 Thread Philip Taylor
Zdenek Wagner wrote: Hi John, the reason is somewhere before you read eplain.tex because within the lines from your original mail you close more files than you open. By which Zdeněk is referring to : (d:/TEXFILES/TEXINPUT/TEXDOCS/UNIDEFS/UHYPHENS.TEX))

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with ifpdf switch

2020-07-06 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi John, the reason is somewhere before you read eplain.tex because within the lines from your original mail you close more files than you open. Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz po 6. 7. 2020 v 22:41 odesílatel John Was napsal: > Hello

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with ifpdf switch

2020-07-06 Thread John Was
Hello Zdenek Well, I don't consciously invoke either of these .sty files - it's only XeTeX that's doing it behind the scenes for its own reasons. It didn't do it in 2013, and I certainly don't have any line of code that inputs them manually - I didn't even know of their existence. I'll

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with ifpdf switch

2020-07-06 Thread John Was
That's very interesting - I'll see if I can get to the bottom of it tomorrow. But I can absolutely confirm that I'm not using any legacy version of XeTeX anywhere: this was a fresh install from CTAN on a brand new computer that had nothing at all on it apart from AVG antivirus and Mozilla

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with ifpdf switch

2020-07-06 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi all, ifpdf.sty is not buggy but in some cases it can trigger bugs elsewhere. If you do anything more complex, it is better to switch to iftex.sty. Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz po 6. 7. 2020 v 20:00 odesílatel David Carlisle napsal: > >

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with ifpdf switch

2020-07-06 Thread David Carlisle
I get no spurious output from this document with xetex \input ifpdf.sty \input eplain xxx \bye However you do not have the current version of ifpdf.sty your text is showing a 2016 date which presumably means you have an old copy somewhere on a local input path that is masking the one you

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with ifpdf switch

2020-07-06 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2020-07-06, John Was wrote: > On acquiring a new PC I decided to install the latest TeXLive (previously I > was on the 2013 version). I use plain XeTeX. To my surprise, the first > page now has at the top the text: > > ifpdf [2016/04/04 v3.0 Provides the ifpdf switch] > > See the attached

[XeTeX] Problem with ifpdf switch

2020-07-06 Thread John Was
Hello On acquiring a new PC I decided to install the latest TeXLive (previously I was on the 2013 version). I use plain XeTeX. To my surprise, the first page now has at the top the text: ifpdf [2016/04/04 v3.0 Provides the ifpdf switch] See the attached one-page PDF. Below I give some lines