Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem with preface and jadetex

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

Ian Castle writes:
 > Since jadetex 3.7 introduced support for roman numerals, the
 > implementation of this breaks. The problem is that the tex primitive
 > "ifnum" is used to test the value of the label to see if it is less than
 > 0. This requires integer values to work. Roman numbers e.g. "i" do not
 > count as integers, so "ifnum" falls over horribly....

Your analysis looks pretty solid to me. I'll try to get a new jadetex
out the door with this.

Sebastian