Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:56:35 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Handbook print output abnormality Message-ID: <20010720085635.B72421@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20010719201147.O34971@meow.osd.bsdi.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:11:47PM -0700 References: <20010719201147.O34971@meow.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:11:47PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:
> There is a problem somewhere in the doc toolchain that is
> introducing a small corruption to our PostScript output. If you have
> the printed 1st edition, then you can turn to page 50 to view the
> problem. Otherwise, you can download the PostScript version and turn
> to (page 49 in my local tree). The problem is with the permissions
> table on the first page of Chapter 3. The third column of the first
> row should contain "---". This is what is contained in the SGML
> source, and in the intermediate book.tex-ps. It appears to me that
> dvi2ps is removing the second hyphen anytime that it sees two hyphens
> together. (rows 1, 2, and 5). Does anyone know why this might be the
> case?
TeX see '--' and variants as a ligature for en and em dashes, and
replaces it accordingly.
The fix is to have Jade turn them in to -\/- in the .tex file.
OpenJade in the ports tree doesn't do this, but the one in the OpenJade
CVS repository does. Go to
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/openjade/jade/jade/TeXFOTBuilder.cxx?rev=1.18&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
and search for "// break ligatures" to see the code.
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