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[Kyle Andrews <address@hidden>]

Dear TeXmacs users,

I have been experiencing frequent crashes on the TeXmacs 1.99.5 package from the Arch Linux extra repository:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/56787

So, I was happy to see an update which seemed to be for texmacs 1.99.6. Atleast, that is what pacman current reports with `pacman -Qs texmacs`. Interestingly, executing `texmacs -v` from the shell still reports 1.99.5, as does the about page inside the GUI. Looking at the PKGBUILD, it does look like 1.99.6 should be being downloaded from the ftp server. I built the package myself and I see the same issue reported above. Was this version information updated in the package? Ignoring the versioning issue, the update seems far less prone to crashes. Where I found many ways to crash TeXmacs under the previous version of the package (e.g. running with `texmacs -d`, entering any character in a document would cause a segmentation fault, as would trying to insert a footer (even with plain `texmacs`)), the quality of the rendering in the GUI was superb. Now, while running with `texmacs -d` I still see:

Warning: resynchronizing for path [ 0, 0, 1]
...

Warning: resynchronizing for path [ 0, 0, 2]
...

Warning: resynchronizing for path [ 0, 0, 3]
...

But the most noticeable issue I observe is that the text rendering quality is significantly reduced inside the editor. For an example, I have attached a screenshot. I have also attached a copy of the PKGBUILD file. For the most part, it is just a bash script that runs through the TeXmacs build and installation process so hopefully it will still be intelligible to users of other Linux distributions. Can anyone suggest a a cause and/or solution to this display problem? It is a distracting and discouraging eyesore to see such poor quality typesetting when I know how much better it could be. Thanks for any help and advice you can give me.

Best Regards,

Kyle Andrews

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