"Axel E. Retif" <[email protected]> writes: > With the new memory modules, but it has been different. I has happened > twice exactly: > > The first, instead of the word ``según'' Meld showed in the new > version of the file something like ``segÃn'', as if it was mistaken > the encoding for that word along, but closing Meld and, without doing > anything else, choosing again "External editor" from the gitk > interface, didn't show the error again. Anyway, I also checked with > Emacs, TeXworks and Kate and there wasn't such corruption. > > The second, it showed a $ instead of a space. As I don't use > nonstopmode, it was impossible that LaTeX had typeset the file with an > opening $ without a corresponding closing $, but I checked anyway and > indeed there wasn't such $. > > Also, the text corruption that originated this thread didn't go away > ---I still have some in an org-mode file that I have kept as a > reminder.
Once it is saved, it will of course remain. The other stuff, however, sounds like a troubling continuation of previous problems. Maybe it is chipset or CPU or board related. On the other hand, changing the memory modules seems to have changed something. Scary stuff, that. I don't think it likely that the hard disk or its interface is at fault: your symptoms sounded so transitory that they are likely to occur in-memory. Stuff like a bad extension card or a damaged PCB track or terminator on bus line D2 or a solder splash adding unwanted capacity can also lead to such unreliable effects through reflections/delays. Today's computers are annoyingly high frequency devices. At any rate, the symptoms are quite clearly pointing to a hardware problem (if we discount the possibility of a virus author with quite a malicious sense of humor). It's good that it has gotten less, but still annoying. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
