[mgp-users 01245] Re: Rendering bugs in 1.10a

[Yoshifumi Nishida <nishida@csl.sony.co.jp>]

Hmm. You can call it a bug, if you want. 
But all I can say is that it's not a bug, since it's working as intended.
I explained how it works and you already know how to get the same result as
1.09a. 
Sorry for lack of the document. But please remember mgp is a just tiny free 
software.
--
Yoshifumi Nishida
nishida@csl.sony.co.jp


From: Tim Maher <tim@consultix-inc.com>
Subject: [mgp-users 01244] Re: Rendering bugs in 1.10a
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:14:16 -0700
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 > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:00:51AM -0700, Yoshifumi Nishida wrote:
 > > 
 > > I found a bug and fixed it. But I realized that it has nothing to 
 > > with your problem after I got full information of your mgp script.
 > > 
 > > The reason that you have smaller gaps for the line: "SPUG .." is you 
 > > put "%vgap 20" before the line. If you relace it with "%vgap 75",
 > > or remove it and set vgap 75 in default 3, you will get same result
 > > as 1.09a. 
 > > --
 > > Yoshifumi Nishida
 > > nishida@csl.sony.co.jp
 > 
 > I know how to work around this problem, but that's not my point.
 > 
 > My point is that this behavior is *entirely new* in 1.10a; 1.09a
 > uses the 'tab 1' definition to set the vgap parameter for the
 > intra-tab-1 and post-tab-1 vertical gap spacing, regardless of
 > what %vgap setting might come before it, rather than letting a
 > vgap-setting leak in from above, which is what 1.10a is doing.
 > 
 > I'm identifying this behavior as a bug because a) it's not a
 > documented change from 1.09a, and b) it can break presentations
 > written for 1.09a, and c) I've got hundreds of pages that work fine
 > in 1.09a, but get rendered very badly in 1.10a because of this.
 > 
 > -Tim
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