Re: [Texpower-users] Re: Soul and pdfslide/pdfscreen conflict [was Re: Problems of new user]

[Stephan L. <le...@ls...>]

"Hans Fr. Nordhaug" wrote on Fri, 4 Oct 2002 07:23:04 +0200 (CEST):
> 
> Hi, just some more information concerning this topic. Below you'll see the 
> message I sent to the maintainers and the reply from the maintainer of 
> soul. As far as I can tell they will not fix their codes so maybe we 
> should add a work-around to texpower.sty?

Three comments:

1) I find it a serious design flaw for any package to globally define a
   two-letter control sequence which is not absolutely vital for
   the package's functioning. Well, there seems no way to remedy that,
   which is especially sad because I find \textst far superior to
   \st because among other things, it elegantly expresses the fact
   that it is not \long.
   
2) As far as I can see, pdfslide is obsolete now and superseded
   by pdfscreen. Does the same error occur also with pdfscreen?
   
3) As neither pdfslide nor soul is vital for the functioning
   of TeXPower, I don't think we should make texpower.sty into
   a `link' between these otherwise unrelated packages.
   The suggestions of Melchior are all reasonable and easy
   realised by a user wanting to combine pdfslide with the
   soul-dependent features of texpower (especially the thing
   about loading first soul and then pdfslide, which is the 
   proper way anyway).
   I'd rather add a corresponding entry in the FAQ.

regards
Stephan

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