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openjade status ? [was: JadeTeX and vertical alignmentin tables ?]
- To: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: openjade status ? [was: JadeTeX and vertical alignmentin tables ?]
- From: Yann Dirson <ydirson at alcove dot fr>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:49:25 +0200
- Cc: Yann Dirson <ydirson at alcove dot fr>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- References: <E15L8Fm-0005Dg-00@wing6.herald.ox.ac.uk>
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:05:30PM +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> > Arg. Is there any easy way round ?
> no, I think not
>
> > How difficult would this be to implement vertical positionning the
> > right way, so that all those problems are solved ? I did not look at
> > JadeTeX source, but I guess I could give it a try - unless you feel it
> > requires too much knowledge of the whole thing...
>
> if i was rewriting jadetex from scratch (whicg I am not!), I'd throw
> away TeX tables and build up cells from scratch. that may be the
> only viable approach
I had a first look, and am wondering. There are 3 sets of
column-styles, and jade uses the oldest one. OTOH openjade refuses to
process Norm's stylesheets - and I it similarly barfs on my stylesheet
customizations.
$ openjade -t tex -d /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/print/docbook.dsl sample-tbl.docbook
openjade:/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/print/dbtable.dsl:404:5:E: flow object not accepted by port; only table-column flow objects followed by table-row or table-cell flow objects allowd
$ openjade -v
openjade:I: "OpenJade" version "1.4devel"
openjade:I: "OpenSP" version "1.5pre5"
Is openjade usable at all ? Is it just 1.4devel that is not
stabilized enough, and 1.3 should be used ?
It is also much MUCH slower than jade at processing documents :(
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