Re: "à" in title makes damaged pdf

[David Kastrup]

Colin Hall <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>
>> Colin Hall <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Here is an update on your bug report, Yvand.
>>>
>>> The bug you reported is due to a known problem in Ghostscript. The
>>> Ghostscript team have fixed their software but we had not yet adopted
>>> the fix in Lilypond. For more information, see:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2985
>>>
>>> David Kastrup has fixed Lilypond.
>>
>> Not really.  I proposed a patch that avoids triggering the bug in recent
>> versions of GhostScript.  LilyPond itself was not in need of "fixing",
>> but at least this will stop people seeing the problem.
>
> Yes, really.
>
> Bug: The released Lilypond software relies upon a feature of
> Ghostscript which does not work.

In certain versions.  It used to work at some point of time, and then
the current solution would have failed.  And it is rather an aspect of a
feature that is buggy.

> Fix: You have modified Lilypond so that it only uses those features of
> Ghostscript which do work as intended.

In some versions of GhostScript which are hopefully more likely to be
used by our users than those versions in which the proposed fix will
make previously working files fail.

>>> We expect your problem to be fixed in the next unstable release of
>>> Lilypond.
>>
>> Unless the patch is vetoed in time for the release.
>
> Yes, but you do good work, so I do expect it to be fixed in the next
> release.

To be honest, I have not even tested the fix.  And the versioning of
GhostScript and its bugs is not in my hand.  I am not even sure I have a
version of GhostScript showing the bug.

-- 
David Kastrup