Bug#145339: debiandoc-sgml: Stylistic error in generated PDF and PostScript cross-references
Hilmar Preusse (hille42@web.de) wrote:
> 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...
Hmm, it's the only package that generates the references unless there's
something going on behind the scenes I'm not aware of. At least it's a
problem in one of the LaTeX modules.
Thanks,
Ardo
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