Misrender of "periodic table" example using dvisvgm backend driver about dvisvgm HOT 6 CLOSED

Thanks for reporting the issue. It's a bug in dvisvgm's character handler that's easy to fix. I'll push the patch shortly.

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A simplified example:

\ifnum\pdfoutput>0 % pdf output
  \documentclass[tikz, margin=5pt]{standalone}
\else % dvi output
  \documentclass[dvisvgm, tikz, margin=5pt]{standalone}
\fi

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \node[draw] {before {\color{gray}GRAY} after};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

• Expected (pdflatex output):
  
• Actual (latex -> dvisvgm output):
  

Rrelevant .dvi content (dumped using dviasm). I'm far from familiar with dvi operations hence not able to say if they are alright.

push:
  xxx: 'ps: 0 setgray '
  push:
    fnt: cmr10 at 10pt
    set: 'b'
    right: 0.277786pt
    set: 'efore'
    w: 3.333328pt
    xxx: 'color push gray 0.5'
    set: 'GRA'
    right: -0.833344pt
    set: 'Y'
    xxx: 'color pop'
    w0:
    set: 'after'
  pop:
pop:
xxx: 'ps::[begin]'
xxx: 'ps:: pgfr'
xxx: 'ps:: restore '
xxx: 'ps:: restore '

push:
  xxx: 'dvisvgm:raw <g fill="#000">{?nl} '
  xxx: 'dvisvgm:raw <g stroke="none"> '
  push:
    fnt: cmr10 at 10pt
    set: 'b'
    right: 0.277786pt
    set: 'efore'
    w: 3.333328pt
    xxx: 'dvisvgm:raw <g fill="black">'
    xxx: 'color push gray 0.5'
    set: 'GRA'
    right: -0.833344pt
    set: 'Y'
    xxx: 'dvisvgm:raw </g>'
    xxx: 'color pop'
    w0:
    set: 'after'
  pop:
  right: 83.041794pt
  xxx: 'dvisvgm:raw </g> '
  xxx: 'dvisvgm:raw </g>{?nl} '
pop:

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Just a workaround: Since this picture is simple (from ps-special's view, for example no shading no pattern), dvisvgm is able to process the .dvi output of latex without setting tikz backend to dvisvgm (default backend is dvips I think).

Hence the original \documentclass[tikz,border=5mm]{standalone} works.

Unfortunately, this workaround doesn't help automatic compiling required by yuzutech/kroki#1440.

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Thank you for minimizing the example!

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Wow, this once again pushes me to try compiling dvisvgm on macOS, instead of waiting for the update from texlive once a year.

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Thank you @mgieseki!

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