Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Customizing Jadetex

[Richard Sharpe <sharpe at ns dot aus dot com>]

At 11:41 AM 3/11/01 +0100, Juan R. Migoya wrote:
>
>I have found that some times, when there is a new version of Jadetex or
>the DSSSL
>files, there are some changes you must do. For example, now the
>(define %two-side% #t)
>is not enough to get two sides pages. You  must change something in
>Jadetex
>in order to get headers, footers and margins corrects for even and odd
>pages.

I have noticed this as well ... 

>My question is:
>
>How can I customize Jadetex withou modifying the Jadetex.dtx file? I
>have
>read the docs of Miktex but I'm very confusing because I don't find the
>things
>the way the docs say they should be, mainly when referring to
>configuration files.

I think that this is a job for Sebastian Rahtz. He seems to understand
JadeTex very well, and I don't have the time to become a TeX hacker at the
moment.

>But I  guess there is a simple way of building the format files (Jadetex
>y Pdfjadetex)
>adding some customizing layer. The problem is that a I am not a Latex
>user and I have
>not idea of how to do it. I imagine you should fed some aditional
>file(s) when building
>the formats, but how?
>
>Other related question would be what variables in Jadetex are related to
>those in Jade.
>This should help in identifiying the problems and whom yo should send
>the bug info
>if it is a bug.
>
>Thanks in advance for the info.
>
>Juan R. Migoya
>Guecho (VIZCAYA)
>SPAIN


Regards
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