trunk/required/babel/testfiles/ttb3099.tex

   1 \iffalse
   2 >Number:         3099
   3 >Synopsis:       babel 3.6Z plain based formats support broken
   4 >Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 16 19:01:03 1999
   5 >Originator:     palopez@earthling.net (Alejandro Lopez-Valencia)
   6 >Description:
   7 Description of bug:
   8 plain based formats fail to load the active characters
   9 code defined in plain.def. I have tested this problem
  10 with several language support files and all fail in the same
  11 spot. babel.def and plain.def are loaded succesfully but
  12 the run dies while loading the remaining .ldf code. It happens
  13 even with english.ldf (?!).
  14
  15 I have tracked the bug to line 157 of babel.def. The conditional
  16 branch in the definition of |\@initiate@active@char| is not working.
  17
  18 >How-To-Repeat:
  19
  20 Sample file which indicates the problem:
  21 ========================================
  22 \fi
  23 %&plain
  24 %
  25 % test file modified from PR babel/2216
  26 %
  27 \input spanish.sty
  28 \selectlanguage{spanish}
  29 \begindocument
  30
  31 \noindent
  32 These standard-TeX constructs:
  33
  34 \'a  \'e  \'\i{} \'o  \'u  \~n
  35 \'A  \'E  \'I    \'O  \'U  \~N
  36 \"u  \"U
  37 \raise1ex\hbox{\underbar{\sevenrm o}}
  38 \raise1ex\hbox{\underbar{\sevenrm a}}
  39 \guillemotleft{}
  40 \guillemotright{}
  41
  42 \noindent
  43 can be obtained using these equivalent spanish babel shorthands:
  44
  45 'A  'E  'I  'O  'U  'N
  46 'a  'e  'i  'o  'u  'n
  47 "U  "u  "o  "a  "<  ">
  48
  49 \noindent
  50 The spanish letter, \~n and \~N, can also be obtained using the
  51 spanish babel shorthand ~n and ~N, but a tilde between two letters
  52 (other than n) inserts a space of fixed length like~here or~{}n.
  53
  54 \bye