Subject: jade/jadetex with tables (was: Re: jade/jadetex & 2 questions) From: Joerg Wittenberger <Joerg.Wittenberger@xxxxxxxxx> Date: 21 May 1999 12:55:13 +0200 |
>>>>> "SR" == Sebastian Rahtz >>>>> <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>>> "ADC" == Adam Di Carlo <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: SR> Joerg Wittenberger writes: >> jade:I: maximum number of errors (200) reached; change with -E >> option TeXFOTBuilder.cxx:761: failed assertion `CurCell != NULL' >> IOT/Abort trap (core dumped) >> >> unfortunatly I forget to keep the posting. SR> I am afraid my reply was along the lines of "oh dear" :-} Yes, there was such a note, and some email of whom coded the table stuff. ADC> Wow... never run into that. Have you notified James Clark ADC> <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>? No I did not directly - I was under the impression that he was following the DSSSL list. >> 3) You wrote that jadetexs table stuff needs some work anyway. How >> much work (lines of code / man days) do you expect? Which skills >> would be required? SR> heavy TeX programming experience, i am afraid. or else substantial SR> C++ to rewrite Jade's TeX backend from scratch That reminds me to the "About the source library" thread. From my recent experience I'd conclude that jade/jadetex is great in principle but for actual use it needs some work. Who dares to estimate man days? I mean it should take maybe $20000 to convince somebody to spent half a year at it and I would actually pay a share of that as I would contribute my time. Who else? ADC> I wouldn't mind seeing the SGML file which causes this problem, ADC> if it's not under a non-disclosure or something.... I'm not supposed to send out the original. I tired 1h now to provide a screwed text which should reproduce the bug (which appears after aprox 20 pages). But things are getting worse. It seems to be impossible to reproduce the bug in a self contained document. In our environment the DTD driver is in one place modifying slightly the docbook dtd. The doc instance files are spread over a couple of directories. When I put everything together into one or a few files magic happens and the assertion is met. SR> if it works in RTF but not TeX, its a jadetex problem. does it SR> work in RTF? Uh, that's a pity. Or crazy? I never tried the rtf backend. Now I did and the table in question comes out right. How did Norm manage to get tables at all? Unfortunatly the formating creates a nested table later - and the rtf backend complains about that. ********************************************************************** * Anyway using the rtf backend would be an option as well. Is there * * any command line converter from rtf to postscript or pdf? * ********************************************************************** ADC> Can you make it easy on us and actually supply the DSSSL and the ADC> SGML you are using? Sure, it's a slight extension to docbook: ----- %< -------------- %< ------------------------------------------------- <Mesg Severity="W"> <MesgNo>PFO101W</MesgNo> <MesgText> <para> invalid server port range specified (<Replaceable>range</Replaceable>). use only one port. </para> </MesgText> <MesgExplan> <para> In der Konfigurationsdatei des Proxy ist unter server_port_range die Anzahl der zu verwendenden Ports für die Kommunikation mit den Radius Servern anzugeben. </para> <VariableList> <VarListEntry> <Term>range</Term> <ListItem> <para> ist der aus der Konfiguration gelesene fehlerhafte Wert. </para> </ListItem> </VarListEntry> </VariableList> </MesgExplan> <SysAct> <para> Der Radius Proxy benutzt nur einen Port. </para> </SysAct> <OResp> <para> Konfiguration überprüfen. </para> </OResp> </Mesg> (define (tip-mesg-entry heading) (make paragraph space-before: %para-sep% quadding: %default-quadding% (make sequence font-weight: 'bold (literal heading " ")) (process-children-trim))) (element (mesg mesgtext) (process-children)) (element (mesg mesgexplan) (tip-mesg-entry "Erläuterung:")) (element (mesg sysact) (tip-mesg-entry "Systemaktion:")) (element (mesg oresp) (tip-mesg-entry "Bedienkraft-Aktion:")) (element (mesg uresp) (tip-mesg-entry "Nutzer-Aktrion:")) (element mesg (make table before-row-border: #f after-row-border: #f before-column-border: #f after-column-border: #f (make table-row (make table-cell width: 2.5cm (literal (data (select-elements (children (current-node)) (normalize "MesgNo"))))) (make table-cell width: (table-width 1) (process-children))))) ----- %< -------------- %< ------------------------------------------------- SR> tried Framemaker and the MIF backend? No, no framemaker close here. DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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