[478] in Athena Bugs
A bug with Scribe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wkdurfee@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 6 11:31:25 1988
From: <wkdurfee@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, wkdurfee@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 88 11:28:15 EDT
Program with which you had the problem: Scribe
Name of person who discovered the bug: Will Durfee
Their MIT phone number: x6237
Their MIT address: Room 3-455
Their Athena Login ID: wkdurfee
Name of consultant reporting bug: Carla Ferman told me to send this in
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
The LineWidth style parameter doesn't work under the PostScript
driver.
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Please describe the problem in detail (mention any necessary files or
commands that may be involved, on which machine the bug happened, and what
the program did that was wrong):
The LineWidth style parameter appears to get ignored under the
POSTSCRIPT driver. Things are O.K. with the LPT driver. See the
sample program below for an example.
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
Here's a file, buggy.mss which shows the problem. Scribe it and
look at the .PS file.
*********************************--buggy.mss
@Device(POSTSCRIPT)
@Style (LeftMargin 1.00 inches)
@Style (LineWidth 2.00 inches)
@Style (Spacing 1)
Here's some text to show that the LineWidth style parameter doesn't
work for Scribe's PostScript driver. If you run this file through
Scribe you would expect a .PS file with a single column 2" wide. You
don't get this. A workaround is to use a LeftMargin/RightMargin combo
but this takes trial and error if what you need is a column of a
precise width. LineWidth does work under the LPT driver.
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Fix (if you know what it is):
No idea.
