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From: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Different systems with different versions of Latex give different results??
Keywords: Latex 2.09, sep '87, apr 88, may 89.
Message-ID: <532@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl>
Date: 8 Jun 90 12:13:24 GMT
Sender: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Reply-To: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl
Organization: Digital Systems Group, Technical Univ. Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Hai, I've encountered the following problem |-) :
Running EmTex ( Latex ) with the picture below gives differnt results depending 
on the version of Latex used.
1) With the original EmTex distribution the figure below is incorrect.
	Some of the lines of the ovals do not join. And there are complaints
	on too small boxes. ( Latex 2.09, may 1989 )
2) Running the same with PCTeX gives correct results. ( Latex 2.09, sep 1987 )
3) Running EmTeX with the sep 1987 version of Latex, will again result in the
	corrent picture.
4) A cross-check on our Apollo-Tex ( Generic Tape, latex 2.09 apr 1988 )
	reviels that here the picture is again generated correct.
	( Did not try the may 1989 version )

My conclusion here is that LaTeX 2.09 may 1989 is broken somewhere.
This is my opinion, and it need not be correct.
Are there any guru's out there which care to react on this weird behaviour?
Can anybody reproduce the problems I've encountered. ( Even the sizes of all
  dvi-files differ. )

Thanx

	Willem Jan Withagen               

Eindhoven University of Technology   DomainName:  wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl    
Digital Systems Group, Room EH 10.10 BITNET: ELEBWJ@HEITUE5.BITNET
P.O. 513                             Tel: +31-40-473401
5600 MB Eindhoven                 
The Netherlands
>>>>>>> cut here: testpic.tex <<<<<<<<
\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
\unitlength=1mm
\special{em:linewidth 0.4pt}
\linethickness{0.4pt}
\begin{picture}(40,45)
\put(10,40){\framebox(15,5)[cc]{firstbox}}
\put(10,35){\framebox(15,5)[cc]{secondbox}}
\put(10,30){\framebox(15,5)[cc]{thirdbox}}
\put(10,25){\framebox(15,5)[cc]{forthbox}}
\put(17,16.9){\circle{14.00}}
\put(17,16.9){\vector(1,1){5}}
\put(32.5,27.5){\oval(14,5)[]}
\put(32.5,32.5){\oval(14,5)[l]}
\end{picture}
\end{document}