Package: texlive-plain-generic
Version: 2022.20230122-4
Severity: wishlist
As of now, the following input produces wrong formatting (cf.
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48501
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48501 ) when fed to pdflatex:
\documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{xcolor} \selectcolormodel{rgb}
\usepackage{soul} \begin{document} Please, highlight \hl{this small text}.
\end{document}
Output attached: mwe_48501.png.
The following input doesn't run though pdflatex (a cleaned-up version of the
example from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/160220):
\documentclass{standalone} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{soul} \usepackage{color}
\definecolor{y}{RGB}{245, 255, 189} \sethlcolor{y} \begin{document} \hl{é}
\end{document}
T he following error is printed:
! Argument of \UTFviii@two@octets@combine has an extra }. <inserted text> \par
l.10 \hl{é}?
Both issues have been solved upstream; I've just tested soul 2023-06-14 v3.1.
According to my old log files, even soul v3.0 might work. We kindly ask for an
upgrade of the soul package, preferrably into Debian 12.2. Though this is not
urgent, I'd personally welcome an upgrade very much (because these issues
prevent recompilation of my old sources with TeX Live from Debian stable, and
recompiling my old sources with the current upstream TeXLive 2023 doesn't work
properly for different reasons (NewTX is partially broken; cf.
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/693396)).
Gratefully,
AlMa
