Re: From Luca, Maths In AbiWord.

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 07:01 +1000, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>> ./configure --prefix=/home/msevior/abidir --without-t1lib
>> --disable-boxml
>> --disable-gmetadom --disable-libxml2-reader --disable-custom-reader
>> --enable-pipe --enable-tfm
>
> Sorry the option
>
> --enable-tfm
>
> should not be necessary, you can remove it from the ./configure line
> (last famous words...)
>
> It enables support for TeX Font Metrics which have more information than
> "normal" metrics files, but it is normally meant to be used for high
> quality formatting only.
>

HI Luca,
        Now I get the following compile error:
 .deps/libxml2_Builder.Tpo -c libxml2_Builder.cc -fPIC -DPIC -o
.libs/libxml2_Builder.o
In file included from libxml2_Builder.cc:29:
../../../src/frontend/common/TemplateBuilder.hh: In member function
`SmartPtr<Attribute> TemplateBuilder<Model, Builder,
RefinementContext>::getAttribute(const typename Model::Element&, const
AttributeSignature&) const':
../../../src/frontend/common/TemplateBuilder.hh:1255: error: incomplete
type `Attribute' used in nested name specifier
../../../src/frontend/common/TemplateBuilder.hh: In member function
`SmartPtr<Value> TemplateBuilder<Model, Builder,
RefinementContext>::getAttributeValue(const typename Model::Element&,
const AttributeSignature&) const':
../../../src/frontend/common/TemplateBuilder.hh:1267: error: invalid use
of undefined type `struct Attribute'
../../../src/engine/common/Element.hh:50: error: forward declaration of
`struct Attribute'
../../../src/frontend/common/TemplateBuilder.hh: At global scope:
../../../src/frontend/common/TemplateBuilder.hh:556: warning: unused
parameter 'builder'
../../../src/frontend/common/TemplateBuilder.hh:556: warning: unused
parameter 'el'
../../../src/frontend/common/TemplateBuilder.hh:556: warning: unused
parameter 'elem'
make[4]: *** [libxml2_Builder.lo] Error 1

> BTW, I tried to print the abiword document with the embedded formula
> that I showed you today, and some glyphs (the square root symbol) came
> out with a slightly different shape or in a wrong position, and all the
> horizontal lines (like in fractions) so thin they were barely visible.
> Is printing any different than rendering with respect to metrics?

Hmm. In principle it isn't but the resolution of the printer canvas is
much higher than screen. There could be some issue we're not taking into
account here.

>
> --luca
>
Received on Wed May 18 09:34:44 2005