Re: jadetex again Thanks! Sebastian

[s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sebastian Rahtz)]

building jadetex

 >  i. babel complains about french hyphenation patterns missing for 
 >     french and ultimately tells me that the French language is undefined
 >     and that my language.dat file is corrupted.
 >     -ignored. I haven't installed any languages (other than english)
 >      in my base latex fmt.
ok, ignore all that

 >  ii. complained that the local hyperref.sty file was out of date. 
good!

 >     - btw: there's a version slew problem. I've been downloading from
 >       various U.S. sites previously, and those versions are at
 >       [1997/09/09 5.3 Hypertext links for LaTeX]. I believe I got
 >       this one from ftp.rge.com or ftp.duke.edu.
dont trust any sites except full CTAN mirrors

 > The testbib file worked fine (i.e. it built silently & and had a readable
 > dvi file. xdvi complained incessently about push and pop specials.)
color, i guess. there is something like a -hushspecials option for
xdvi

 > I also tried it against xbook.sgm in the test subdirectory of Norm Walsh's
 > Docbook DSSSL specification. jadetex got really upset with the table 
 > subsection, complaining about missing \cr's, extraneous & and missing  or 
 > extra \endgroup commands, and missing } characters. I'll rebuild with

as expected; table support is certainly bad. 

sebastian


 DSSSList info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist