Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:28:04 +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: <1125433684.62512.2.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050830194154.GD35225@freebsdmall.com> References: <1125401964.4959.28.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <20050831.043516.71548826.hrs@allbsd.org> <20050830194154.GD35225@freebsdmall.com>
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Murray Stokely píše v út 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>:
> >
> > pa> Why we do still stick with jade, when better faster happier openjade is
> > pa> available? If it's purely historical sentiment, isn't it time for a
> > pa> global switch to openjade?
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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..).
>
> 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.
Just tried to build Porter's Handbook into PDF with openjade and
jadetex, got 11 pages of garbage. Not good, not at all.
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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
And now something completely different.
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