Re: DOCBOOK: Revisited JadeTeX problem: ULINKs extend out of the page margins

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Adam Di Carlo writes:
 > Sebastian, you've mentioned repeatedly that jadetex isn't given the
 > contextual information it needs to pop into and out of URL mode (or
 > filename mode).  This clearly strikes me as a problem in the TeX
 > backend to (Open)?Jade.

no, its not. its a stylesheet issue. when a <ulink> is processed by
the DSSSL engine, it is turned into an XXX, which has no knowledge of
the fact that it was once a URL. Where would it record the fact?
unless it can tell the TeX backend that, how can the TeX backend infer 
it? ok, so it could look for http:// etc, agreed, but thats only part
of it.

 > Directing this question to the OpenJade hackers, if any are around, is
 > this very hard to fix in OpenJade?  In DSSSL subsystem in which the
 > backends operate, there must be some way to sense and then notate this
 > state...

if it was a known state, it would be easy!

sebastian