Re: jade/docbook/norm walsh's stylesheets upgrade?

["Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>  > P.S. I haven't tried JadeTeX in a long time.  Does anyone with
>  > more experience have any comments?
>
> for anything but tables, i'll back jadetex with hard cash. but if your
> bent is tabular, either a) give me a job where i have time to do more
> DSSSL, b) make each day have 26 hours, or c) tell me you can rerwrite
> portions of TeXFOTBuilder.cxx

Ouch! I still hold out hope that jadetex-0.53 will show some improvement
over jadetex-0.51, but I haven't figured out how to build it yet. Is
anyone running it on a libc-5.3.x linux box who can send me the relevant
files? I think I can tell you which ones if that would help.

I've spend a _lot_ of time converting ~200 pages of docs to DocBook, and
counted on support for at least simple tables for postscript output (html
is the other important one but seems to be in hand). Anyone have any
suggestions? Perhaps someone has had success with tables by specifying
them differently than I did?? Since these are docs for the PostgreSQL
database effort, the solution needs to be Unix-based.

                                                     - Tom

> apologies to all reading for this for the continued less-than-ideal
> state of the jadetex macros. i'm just off to India for the inaugural
> meeting of the Indian TeX Users Group, so maybe i'll find some time
> on the beach.....
>
> sebastian




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