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longtabu broken in pdfTeX 1.40.23 #27

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DBorello opened this issue Aug 3, 2021 · 3 comments
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longtabu broken in pdfTeX 1.40.23 #27

DBorello opened this issue Aug 3, 2021 · 3 comments

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@DBorello
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DBorello commented Aug 3, 2021

The longtabu environment appears to be broken in pdfTeX 1.40.23 (namely TeX Live 2021/W32TeX).

For example:

\documentclass{article}%
\usepackage{longtable}%
\usepackage{tabu}%
\begin{document}
  \begin{longtabu}{X}%
    1 
  \end{longtabu}
\end{document}

Produces:

! Dimension too large.
\LT@max@sel #1#2->{\ifdim #2=\wd \tw@ 
                                      #1\else \number \c@LT@chunks \fi }{\th...
l.7 \end{longtabu}

This appears to work fine in TeX Live 2020/W32TeX.

@ddddavid-he
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It seems to be happening in every tex.
It also fails in TexLive 2021

@davidcarlisle
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@ddddavid-he Please see the readme for this repository. tabu is broken and not being maintained. This repository is available to collect new issues and test examples should anyone wish to pick it up in the future. But just commenting that it is broken does not help any future work.

@ghost
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ghost commented Nov 19, 2023

Just a thought; no action necessary beyond what has already been asked or said by others.
Despite the package tabu being unmaintained, I found this very bug report useful as documentation of what exactly goes wrong with longtabu from a user's prespective. (My own example would have been a tiny bit different: running pdflatex on

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable,tabu}
\begin{document}
\begin{longtabu}{lX}test&test\end{longtabu}
\end{document}

produced the error

! Dimension too large.
\LT@max@sel #1#2->{\ifdim #2=\wd \tw@ 
                                      #1\else \number \c@LT@chunks \fi }{\th...
l.4 \begin{longtabu}{lX}test&test\end{longtabu}

)

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