Re: PostScript?

[Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam P. Harris writes:
 >       http://tug.org/applications/jadetex/jade.patch.july07
 >       http://tug.org/applications/jadetex/jade-newfiles.zip
 > 
 > My jadetex version is 1.0b5, dated 1998/07/02.
these are not the latest, of course.

 > coupled with additional patches to jade itself which are rather large.
 > Moreover, from Sebastian's comments in the release notes, the newer
 > version dealt mostly with MathML and other mathematical issues, which
 > I don't care about.
maybe i was misleading. the changes are important, and incompatible
with older JadeTeXs, and I do advise using them.

 > Lets hope so.  Here's a bug report of noted problems. Sebastian, let
 > me know if a later revision is likely to fix these problems.  Let me
of course!

 > know if you would like a sample document demonstrating the problems.
yes please

 >  * figure caption widowed (i.e., not on same page with figure)
depends on how you constructed it

 >  * underlining for <link>s extends to the following punctuational mark
 > (i.e., " ", "-", ".").
 > 
 >  * if a <link> occurs at the start of a para, the underlining extends
 > all the way to the left margin
i'd have to see this in action. since I dont underline anything in
links, I am a bit puzzled.

 >  * insufficient block separatation occurs when the <itemizedlist> or
 > <variablelist> entities start
that probably *is* fixed, as Kendall Clark noted it

 >  * doesn't have reasonable headers/footers out of the box, might be
 > fixable w/ more research
not sure what you mean by "reasonable". jadetex does, so far as I
know, all that the RTF backend does.

sebastian


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