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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Does JadeTeX work?
I'm using Jadetex 3.4, DSSSL 1.62 and Jade 1.2.1 and it works fine. The only thing I had to change is the "oddleftmargin" and "evenleftmargin" in jadetex, to get it working with two-side (diferentes left margins for odd and even pages). Also, there were a question in this list just about your problem, some days ago. Sebastian replied saying that you should change "cleardoublepage" to "clearpage". Please check the archives because I have not this message here and I may be missing something. Regards, Juan R. Migoya David Nelson wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This is a sincere question, I'd really like an answer: are you using > JadeTeX? And if so, does it work for you? Because I've been using > it, and I've found the results to be quite poor. > > Let me tell you the story of my woes. > > My system: Debian 2.2. I installed the stable packages for DocBook, > DocBook stylesheets, Jade, JadeTeX, etc., and started work. > > HTML output was fine. I found the TeX output to be a bit ugly, but > making a custom stylesheet helped. Then I started noticing problems. > > First, headings were appearing at the bottom of the pages, with their > first paragraph breaking to the next page. Very ugly (but technically > not incorrect). I searched this mailing list, and found that this was > a bug which had been fixed. So, I installed the unstable JadeTeX > package for Debian, and sure enough, the problem was solved. > > Next, I noticed that two-sided output was fine (headers & footers > aligned correctly; and \cleardoublepage at the end of chapters), but > there was a problem with one-sided output: headers correct, but > \cleardoublepage instead of \clearpage. So there were extraneous > blank pages, which would be suitable for two-sided printing, but which > were ugly & superfluous for one-sided printing. > > So, I upgraded to the very latest version of JadeTeX (3.4), by > downloading the sources, making a hugelatex.fmt, and compiling & > installing JadeTeX by hand. It worked, but the problem wasn't fixed. > > Then, I thought that maybe it was a problem with some of the other > packages on my system. So, I upgraded to unstable docbook, > docbook-stylesheets, and jade, and tried again. This is where it got > interesting... > > The behaviour was REVERSED! Now, single-sided printing worked fine, > but the two-side setting was ignored. You may think this was a bad > custom style file, but it wasn't: I set other settings in my style > file, and they worked okay. But two-sided printing was no longer > possible. > > Then, I noticed another bug, which was not just annoying, it was a > serious error. The page numbers were sometimes off, especially in the > Table of Figures (ToF). For example: if a figure appeared near the > end of page 7, but was wrapped around to page 8 because of its size, > it would appear in the ToF as page 7, whereas it was really appearing > on page 8. Bad, bad, bad. > [snip...] > Dave.
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