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Re: LSynth within LPub
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:34:23 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Timothy Gould wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad, Timothy Gould wrote:
> > > > Also, tonight, when generating layouts, LPub fails to generate the final
> > > > completed layout image.  The status box says "Laying out page 46" but there is
> > > > no image 46.  I also notice that there is no image 46 in the images folder.
> > > > Strange.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks again.
> > > > 
> > > > -Galen
> > > 
> > > Hi Kevin,
> > > 
> > > Thanks once again for all your good work on LPub.
> > > 
> > > Although I've not run any tests on it, I'd noticed this problem too. If you want
> > > me to check it out in any way just ask.
> > > 
> > > Tim
> > 
> > Hi Tim,
> >   Please dig into this one.  Is it maybe a trailing STEP with no parts after it?
> > Kevin
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> It seems the problem lies with callouts rather than the step. I think the
> callout counter might keep incrementing across steps rather than resetting. Try
> this file http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/timgould/temp/cab.mpd and you'll
> see.

Thanks for the details on this one.  You're sort of right.

On single step pages, the callout counter must reset after each page (each
step).

For multi-step pages, though, we have multiple steps on a given page.  In this
case the callout counter must reset after each page, but *not* each step.

The part of the code that renders callout images got it right, but the code that
composits pages was wrong.  I fixed that.

The next thing I noticed was that the the second page of cab, contained two
callouts (front and back), yet the step where front was added was not visible on
the page.  I found and fixed this the right way, but unfortunately it requires
changes to relationship between MULTI_STEP BEGIN/ENDs.

I *hate* post-release clarity!

What was:

0 LPUB MULTI_STEP END
0 STEP
0 LPUB MULTI_STEP BEGIN

becomes:

0 STEP
0 LPUB MULTI_STEP END
0 LPUB MULTI_STEP BEGIN

The BEGIN in this example is irrelevent, but put there because you'll find that
sequence in your cab.mpd.

I'll update documentation, and my example files, and create a new release.

> 
> Tim

Thanks,
Kev



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  Re: LSynth within LPub
 
(...) Hi Kevin, It seems the problem lies with callouts rather than the step. I think the callout counter might keep incrementing across steps rather than resetting. Try this file (URL) and you'll see. Tim (21 years ago, 23-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad)

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