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Re: dsl + jadetex font tweaking
- From: Adam DiCarlo <adam at onshored dot com>
- To: kdunn at hsc dot edu
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:50:33 -0600
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: dsl + jadetex font tweaking
- Organization: onShore Development, Inc
- References: <200303141401.AA656605658@hams-hsc.hsc.edu>
"Kevin Dunn" <kdunn at hsc dot edu> writes:
> It looks like a stylesheet issue, though I have no idea at what
> point in the chain it could be fixed. The dsl stylesheet writes the
> ascii code for the degree symbol into the tex file. TeX understands
> the symbol and prints it, but stupidly, with too much space between
> the symbol and the next character. TeX actually has a smart degree
> symbol, \textdegree. Currently I run my tex through a sed script to
> change all the ascii degrees into textdegrees. It looks just like it
> should, but I have no idea how to massage the stylesheets into
> outputting \textdegree for °
>
> I will include an example in the one I am creating for the "page number" problem.
I don't really see how this could be a stylesheet issue. It's either
an OpenJade TeX backend issue or a JadeTeX issue.
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...Adam Di Carlo...<adam at onshored dot com>.......<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>