Change to output routine code breaks latex afterpage package

[David Carlisle]

Thanks all,

My normal mirror hasn't picked it up yet but I grabbed a pdftex binary from
the svn and the original latex example
and some smaller plain tex tests all work again.

David


On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 at 19:47, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:

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> It appears that the change
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> https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/d17e5e0968269f781f3fe972b705fff43ea2e139
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> avoid crashing on devious uses of \output and write braces, from DRF …
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> breaks the afterpage package that has been part of the core latex2e
> release since the start.
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> see
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> https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/1311
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> Can this be reverted/adjusted so the package still works?
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> \documentclass{report}
> \usepackage{afterpage}
> \begin{document}
> Page \thepage
> \afterpage{Hi!}
> \newpage
> Page \thepage
> \newpage
> Page \thepage
> \end{document}
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> produces 3 pages  with Hi on page 2 in all previous releases, but produces
> 4 pages with Hi on page 4 in tl2024
>
> David
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