\grecross and \grealtcross have been swapped

[olivierberten]

\grecross used to produce a maltese cross but now you need to type \grealtcross in order to produce the same result...

[henryso]

Anyone know if this was working correctly in 3.0.3 ?

[olivierberten]

No idea... I was still using 2.4...

[henryso]

If it is a bug in 4.0.0 vs 3.0.3, it becomes a high priority to be a bug we fix for 4.0.1. However, if it's been this way since 3.0.3, then we need to discuss how to deal with it since some people will have used the new behavior, so we can't call at bug so much as a change in behavior.

[rpspringuel]

I think the most likely point for this sort of swap to have been introduced is when we changed the font interface system. Perhaps the names of the crosses in the font got switched in that process?

[henryso]

I don't dispute that. What I'm trying to determine is the course of action here:

• If it's a bug introduced between 3.0 and 4.0, then it should be fixed in 4.0.1 as a bug
• If it was introduced between 2.4 and 3.0, no one noticed it, so we have to choose whether to treat this as a bug and fix it (which would break documents created during the 3.0 era that use the \grecross in its 3.0 behavior) or just document it (which breaks documents created prior to 2.4 that use the \grecross in its 2.x behavior).

[rpspringuel]

Right, I was hoping that by identifying what might have caused the error, I could narrow down the search parameters for some one trying to differentiate between the two situations you describe. Seeing as I didn't have the time to actually conduct that search myself, it was the best I could do at the time.

Now that I have the time:
Main.pdf

Main.pdf

It looks like the swap was between 3.0.3 and 4.0.0, making this a bug.

[henryso]

Perfect. Thanks.