On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:46:11 -0600, David Kastrup <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It is my opinion that all of Knuth's attempt to hide the result of > real arithmetic in TeX are just a source of pain, trouble and > quirkiness, and should stop being a design criterion. It also affects > the output of the trip test, making it system-dependent. One of the files in our test suite failed because of this: I had prepared the original test file using MiKTeX and when run on my Mac I got a lot of diffs because of errors on the fifth decimal in glue settings. Most annoying. > There are two approaches to get there: either just ignore the system > dependencies (PostScript more or less does that, I think, and has not > terribly suffered from it), or replace all occurences of real > arithmetic by fixed-point arithmetic, and be done. There are change > files for that purpose already, if I remember correctly: it was shown > that this was feasible. Yes, Matthias Clasen did that. It is available at ctan in /systems/tex-extensions/clasen/. -- Morten