From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f3021d85fb0cf9a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A4 formatted ARM? Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 18:14:43 -0500 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1210202097 24017 69.95.181.76 (7 May 2008 23:14:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 23:14:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5743 Date: 2008-05-07T18:14:43-05:00 List-Id: "John McCabe" wrote in message news:ui2324dn0re154g2lq3evd0ebpa600om2d@4ax.com... ... > This is what I've found - note that I changed copied RM.MSM to > RMA4.MSM and changed: > > @RTFPageSize{Ada95} > > to > > @RTFPageSize{A4} > > Hence it may be that some paragraph numbers, such as that in item 10 > below, may be different for you as it looks like that one's due to a > page break. > > 1: Paragraph 6/2 (Introduction) - "Design Goals". Need to format the > paragraph number (6/2) frame so that the horizontal distance from the > text is 0cm. Looks like there isn't enough space for the paragraph numbers. That's not totally surprising; the ISO versions which use that A4 template don't have paragraph numbers so there hasn't been any reason to check that part of the layout. > I've just tried OpenOffice 2.4 with the RTF created, it just hangs as > far as I can see - I had to kill it off. Maybe it will work better on > a non-Microsoft platform, or one with more than 1GB of RAM :-) Darn. I'm not completely surprised, I suspect from the behavior of Word that there is something wrong with the generated RTF, but since there is no information about it at all (the only error that you can get is a failure of it to load or a crash or hang) it's not clear how to figure out the problem. I'm pretty sure the problem is with the horrific RTF required to generate tables, but that it about all I can tell since the RTF requires repeating the entire setup in every cell, which makes the result completely unreadable. Of course, it works with Word (but not completely, since you can't save it as RTF), so there wasn't much point in continuing to hack on it. I'll have to try to figure that out someday, but there isn't a huge rush (no new standards for a while, I think). Randy.