Received: via tmail-4.1(11) (invoked by user schoepf) for schoepf; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:19:10 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA12022 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:19:10 +0200 (MEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C02DCB.01E88300" Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e946J9d05950 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:19:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.3B6B8C4C@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 8:19:08 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 471232 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:19:05 +0200 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13659 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:19:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA18086 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:19:05 +0200 Received: from nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (nets5.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.13]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA07568 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:19:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (8.10.1/8.10.1/5) with ESMTP id e946J4M01690 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:19:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from diabolo.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (diabolo.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.53.45]) by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/3) with ESMTP id IAA24182 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:19:04 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <14739.48861.489686.131120@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Return-Path: X-Sender: blume@diabolo.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: proto-type of new output routine available Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 06:50:48 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Achim Blumensath" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3630 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C02DCB.01E88300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > > hope you don't find too many bugs with it I found a `feature' which might qualify as a bug. The routine \make@page@box which constructs the final page produces a box with zero dimensions. This results in the DVI file saying that the maximal horizontal and vertical dimensions are zero. At least my DVI viewer = under BeOS gets confused by this. > - If the design allows strange placements in various areas, then = ".lot" > files etc will as a result always be ordered strangely. There is > not much you can do about that on this stage (even if the above > problem is fixed) other than ensuring that at some later stage such > files get sorted automatically. If you need a TeX implementation of merge-sort you can take a look at = the unfinished index package on my homepage. Achim -- ________________________________________________________________________ | \_____/ = | Achim Blumensath \O/ \___/\ = | Mathematische Grundlagen der Informatik =3Do=3D \ = /\ \| www-mgi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~blume /"\ = o----| ____________________________________________________________________\___|= ------_=_NextPart_001_01C02DCB.01E88300 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: proto-type of new output routine available

Hello,

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Frank Mittelbach wrote:
>
> hope you don't find too many bugs with it

I found a `feature' which might qualify as a bug. The = routine
\make@page@box which constructs the final page = produces a box with zero
dimensions. This results in the DVI file saying that = the maximal
horizontal and vertical dimensions are zero. At least = my DVI viewer under
BeOS gets confused by this.

>  - If the design allows strange placements = in various areas, then ".lot"
>    files etc will as a result = always be ordered strangely. There is
>    not much you can do about that = on this stage (even if the above
>    problem is fixed) other than = ensuring that at some later stage such
>    files get sorted = automatically.

If you need a TeX implementation of merge-sort you can = take a look at the
unfinished index package on my homepage.

Achim
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