Re: Bug#145339: debiandoc-sgml: Stylistic error in generated PDF and PostScript cross-references
reassign 145339 tetex-base
thanks
Hi,
This needs to be fixed in the 'varioref' style. It actually might be wrong
on more languages than 'american' and 'english'.
Thanks,
Ardo
David Sewell (drs2n@mothership.upress.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
> Package: debiandoc-sgml
> Version: 1.1.59
> Severity: minor
>
> There's a small stylistic error in the way page cross-references are
> generated from DebianDoc SGML to PDF and Postscript output. Given a phrase
> in the SGML original like
>
> With the advent of package pools (see <ref id="pools">) ,
>
> if the location of the referenced section is on the previous page in
> printed PDF/PS output, this gets translated to
>
> With the advent of package pools (see 'The pool directory' on the
> page before)
>
> That's unidiomatic--it should be "on the preceding page."
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Kernel Version: Linux mothership 2.4.17-586tsc #2 Sat Dec 22 21:56:51 EST 2001 i586 unknown
>
> Versions of the packages debiandoc-sgml depends on:
> ii debianutils 1.16 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
> ii libhtml-parser 3.25-1 A collection of modules that parse HTML text
> ii libi18n-langta 0.27-1 Perl module for dealing with RFC3066-style l
> ii libsgmls-perl 1.03ii-20 Perl modules for processing SGML parser outp
> ii libtext-format 0.52-14 Perl module for formatting (text) paragraphs
> ii liburi-perl 1.18-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strings
> ii perl 5.6.1-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
> ii sgml-base 1.14 utilities to maintain the SGML catalog file
> ii sgml-data 1.5.5 common SGML DTDs and entities
> ii sgmlspl 1.03ii-20 SGMLS-based example Perl script for processi
> ii sp 1.3.4-1.2.1-28 James Clark's SGML parsing tools
>
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