Re: [Groff] status of pdfmark macros

[Heinz-Jürgen Oertel]

Am Montag, 6. Dezember 2004 11:55 schrieb Keith MARSHALL:
> Hi Heinz,
>
> > Searching the list for the pdfmark macros wasn't successful.
> > Can someone please help with a link or the files ?
>
> My original tarball can be found, as an attachment, here ...
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2004-09/msg00103.html
>
> I posted a couple of patches, subsequently ...
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2004-09/msg00111.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2004-09/msg00113.html
>
> The first of these implements an optimisation suggested by
> Werner; the second addresses a bug reported by Robert Goulding
> (Robert, you didn't confirm if this patch was successful--have
> you had a chance to test it)?
>
> In the meantime, I have made some fairly extensive changes,
> mostly to address the issue of "pdfhref" links with a "hot-spot"
> spanning page breaks, which now appear to work reliably, in all
> but one case--if a link appears in a footnote diversion, which
> gets output within a page transition which is also spanned by
> another link, then all bets are off!
>
> Actually, links don't work very well in diversions in any case,
> and are best avoided with the current implementation.  I have
> also made some changes to address this issue, but have not yet
> fully tested this aspect.
>
> Since you have expressed a continuing interest, now would seem
> a good time to issue a further patch, so that you can evaluate
> from the same basis as myself.  As before, the attached
>
>    pdfmark.tmac.diff-20041206.gz
>
> is relative to the original tarball, while
>
>    pdfmark.tmak.patch-20041206.gz
>
> applies to a pdfmark.tmac with all of the earlier patches
> already applied.
>
> If you are starting from scratch, don't bother with the two
> interim patches--just download the original tarball and apply
> this latest pdfmark.tmac.diff-20041206.gz
>
>
>
> Anyone who has kept up with the earlier patches, should instead
> apply this new pdfmark.tmac.patch-20041206.gz
>
>
>
> Either approach will bring you up to date with the current
> development state of the pdfmark macros.  I have also added some
> additional content in the documentation file "pdfmark.pdf",
> (which you create from "pdfmark.ms", by invoking either
>
>    ./pdfmake pdfmark
>
> or
>
>    make -f pdfmake pdfmark
>
> in the "contrib/pdfmark" directory.  However, there is still a
> way to go, before even this preliminary documentation could be
> considered complete, and I would also like to provide it in
> texinfo format, with one or two summary manpages.
>
> HTH,
> Keith.


Thanks Keith,
But I'm running into problems applying the patch.
Would it be not better to attach the new tar archive, your latest file 
versions included?

Regards
 Heinz