Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 17:54:20 JST
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: melvin AT math DOT psu DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: virtex in windows

Richard--
    No, you haven't missed any such thread, and this is almost surely
not the correct forum in any case, at least not for a first report.
Since the log file states that the glue is different, it is TeX which
is producing your strange output.  The code has probably been
correctly compiled, but there is a bug or incorrectly set switch or
environment variable for TeX around somewhere.  I would look around
for differences between your Windows environment and your DOS
environment, especially things like using a different command shell,
different order in PATH, etc.
    I have had similar problems with several versions of TeX, usually
due to bad printer drivers.  Presumably this is not your problem,
because you have the evidence in the log files which are related to
the DVI output, not to the printed output.  Therefore any correct
printer driver should produce your faulty output, I guess.  (You don't
give anywhere near enough information.)  I have also had similar
problems (although consistent across DOS and DV/X) with a Japanese
version of TeX.  Again, this is presumably not your problem.  But my
experience does lead me to believe that it's probable that TeX is
behaving correctly with input that has been somehow munged by Windows.
    If you can confirm that TeX is being told exactly the same things
in the Windows environment as in the DOS environment, then it's a
GCC/DJGPP problem.  Use higher debugging levels for TeX.
    I can shed light on the "glue set" messages.  "Glue" is TeXish for
white space.  It's not called "space" because there are very special
rules for dealing with glue, and glue is more flexible than space.  In
particular, when inserted between words, it doesn't know how big it is
until the words have been set into a line.  Then the glue is made just
big enough to justify and fill the line.  (Glue also has fields which
tell TeX how many words and space will fit on the line.)
Unsurprisingly enough, when this calculation is completed, the glue is
said to be "set".
    
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