Bug#63797: dvips produces bad postcript
From: Brian
Subject: Bug#63797:
Date: 12
> Atsuhito> you should do grouping like
>
> Atsuhito> {\overlay{1} Why is crashing important?} \end{slide}
>
> Atsuhito> This works fine for me but I do not know what output you
> Atsuhito> want.
>
> Yes, this works for me to. Probably means it is a bug in seminar.sty.
> The documentation doesn't mention any requirement of grouping, but
> says instead that \overlay "can be used just about anywhere". It
> can't be used almost anywhere (eg in tables) when grouping is required
> though.
Well /usr/share/texmf/source/latex/seminar/doc/sem-user.tex
says as follows;
\begin{MD}
\overlay{n}
\end{MD}
puts whatever is in its scope (\TeX\ group) on overlay $n$, where
and generally this kind of sentence "whatever is in its scope
(\TeX\ group)" is an important signal that it is needed or at
least it is safe to use grouping for the command.
> Atsuhito> By the way seminar.sty seems to be too obsolete, how
>
> I was told on debian-user that the upstream author of seminar.sty is
> working on updating it. See
> /usr/share/doc/tetex-nonfree/copyright.seminar.gz, it is now DFSG
> free, too.
This is new information to me. Thanks for your advise and
I will try seminar.sty if it become compliant with LaTeX2e ;)
Regards, 2000.5.15
--
Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
Reply to: