Subject: Re: LaTeX export bugs closed
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 20:05:34 CDT
At 11:20 PM 3/28/00 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>Bugs 788 and 789, which I found while testing LaTeX export, and in which
>control characters appeared in the LaTeX file, are now closed. Thanks to
>Joaquín Cuenca Abela for fixing them and adding a few new features to the
>exporter.
Pierre,
I just got a chance to look at the updated feature matrix, and was surprised
to see how many red (unimplemented) and purple (untested) cells there still
are in the LaTeX column:
http://www.abisource.com/feature_matrix.html
I'm not familiar enough with LaTeX's formatting capabilities to know how
lossy a conversion is acceptable, but I figure you and Joaquin are. :-)
Thus, for each remaining red cell, it might be helpful if you could confirm
whether:
- that property *should* be exported (it stays red as is) or
- there's no LaTeX equivalent (it should be a grey n/a instead)
The way I'm reading the current chart, I get the impression that there are a
lot of properties which *do* have a LaTeX equivalent, but we don't properly
handle yet. Is that correct?
Likewise, for each purple cell, I assume that you had trouble determining
what a valid test case would be. Do we need a new test case in the suite,
or is there some question about what the LaTeX equivalent should be?
bottom line
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I personally don't use LaTeX, so the current status of the LaTeX exporter
isn't a problem for me.
Insofar as our end goal is to eventually make the entire column either green
(Just Works) or gray (will never work), I just want to make sure we're clear
about the amount of testing and/or implementation work remaining.
Thanks,
Paul
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