Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:08:31 +0200 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>, murray@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: abandoning jade Message-ID: <1125436111.62512.7.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <1125433684.62512.2.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> References: <1125401964.4959.28.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <20050831.043516.71548826.hrs@allbsd.org> <20050830194154.GD35225@freebsdmall.com> <1125433684.62512.2.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
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--=-pggM2hiQgvPoejZqXNjt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Pav Lucistnik p=ED=B9e v =FAt 30. 08. 2005 v 22:28 +0200: > Murray Stokely p=ED=B9e v =FAt 30. 08. 2005 v 12:41 -0700: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:35:16AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > > > Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> wrote > > > in <1125401964.4959.28.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>: > > >=20 > > > pa> Why we do still stick with jade, when better faster happier openj= ade is > > > pa> available? If it's purely historical sentiment, isn't it time for= a > > > pa> global switch to openjade? > > >=20 > > > IIRC, Murray said that OpenJade had a problem on rendering > > > the handbook in printable format some years ago. > > > Murray, is it correct? If so, do you remember what the problem is? > > > If there is no longer the problem, I agree with switch to OpenJade. > >=20 > > There have historically been lots of problems with OpenJade. Whoever > > wants to make the change should verify that PDF versions of all of our > > documents in the tree can build with OpenJade (and with/without index, > > etc..). > >=20 > > If it works, great. Just because it is on a sourceforge page doesn't > > make it better maintained. Hardly anyone was working on it when I had > > a commit bit to the openjade sourceforge project. >=20 > Just tried to build Porter's Handbook into PDF with openjade and > jadetex, got 11 pages of garbage. Not good, not at all. Correction: I got 11 pages of garbage when working in my locale. When I put LANG=3DC in front of make, it generates pretty nice PDF... Here is the PH generated with openjade+jadetex on amd64: http://raven.oook.cz/ph.pdf Looks good to me. It generates a fair amount of warnings, I don't know if those are normal in jade builds too? --=20 Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz> <pav@FreeBSD.org> --=-pggM2hiQgvPoejZqXNjt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDFMrPntdYP8FOsoIRAuGoAJ4oybN6CrS9Ua8A2XSTTVnC7R1NZwCfd/u9 esphkFcOtRWCl6tJrTNZc7A= =9qiw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pggM2hiQgvPoejZqXNjt--
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