Re: [PATCH -perfbook v2 0/3] Work around backward incompatible changes in LaTeX2e 2024-06-01

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On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:04:36 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 08:01:44AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:55:13 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 06:34:25PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>
>>>> As I mentioned earlier [1], recent updates in core LaTeX and accompanying
>>>> changes in the array package broke build of perfbook.
>>>>
>>>> There are two modes of incompatibilities.
>>>>
>>>>   1. arydshln assumes array's internal implementation of a past version of
>>>>      array, which is no longer true with array >=v2.6.
>>>>
>>>>   2. A "LaTeX Warning:" message in loading parnotes.sty.
>>>>
>>>> Neither arydshln nor parnotes is actively maintained, so here are
>>>> workarounds made in perfbook-lt.tex.
>>>>
>>>> Patch 1/3 adds a rollback option to array and sticks with array v2.5 or
>>>> earlier.
>>>>
>>>> Patch 2/3 enables a silence filter for the particular warning.
>>>>
>>>> Patch 3/3 is a follow up change to use date as rollback options of
>>>> glossaries related packages.  By saying [=2022-10-01] rather than
>>>> [=v2.07], [=v4.49], etc., it becomes obvious when those packages worked
>>>> well with our custom code for glossaries & indexing.
>>>>
>>>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a3ff0522-fd2d-4c87-9c7b-00cbdd5f3c68@xxxxxxxxx/
>>>
>>> Queued, thank you!
>>>
>>> I have to ask...  Longer term, are we going to need to be thinking in
>>> terms of avoiding use of these two packages?  (I have no idea whether
>>> that even makes any sense, but again, I have to ask.)
>>
>> Well, I have faint hope that Frank Mittelbach, the author of
>> TLC3 (The LaTeX Companion, 3rd edition) and the maintainer of array
>> (among others), might want to update those packages, as the book uses
>> arydshln and parnotes in a couple of examples.
>>
>> Just hoping. ;-)
> 
> Me too!  ;-)

Good news.

I've got parnotes v3c in today's update of vanilla TeX Live 2024.
It fixes that "harmless" warning.  Frank is kind enough and takes care of
parnotes as a temporary caretaker [1].

Can you please drop 2/3 unless it is too late?

[1]: https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/parnotes/README.md

        Thanks, Akira

> 
> 							Thanx, Paul





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