Bug#145339: debiandoc-sgml: Stylistic error in generated PDF and PostScript cross-references

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 29.09.02 Ardo van Rangelrooij (ardo@debian.org) wrote:
> David Sewell (drs2n@mothership.upress.Virginia.EDU) wrote:

Hi,

> > 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."
> 
> This needs to be fixed in the 'varioref' style.  It actually might
> be wrong on more languages than 'american' and 'english'.
> 
At least this minimal example doesn't show up that bug in woody:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{varioref}
\begin{document}
test\label{test}
\newpage
test1\vref{test}
\end{document}

So I guess, this is not the fault of varioref...

H. 
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