novel class incompatible

[mbertucci47]

The novel class has a completely different structure than the standard classes and tries to set up metadata with hyperref in a way the generic driver does not like. Also, it redefines footnotes in an incompatible way.

\DocumentMetadata
  {
    lang=en-US,
    pdfversion=2.0,
    pdfstandard=ua-2,
    testphase={phase-III}
  }
\documentclass{novel}
\SetTitle{Some title}
\SetAuthor{Some author}

\begin{document}

text

\end{document}

errors with

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \ERROR 
       \cs_set_eq:NN \__fnote_tmp:w \exp_stop_f: 

It is also incompatible with table tagging as for some reason it errors if array is loaded.

[FrankMittelbach]

sounds a bit as if that might end up "not supported", but that remains to be seen.

[u-fischer]

hm. Various problems even without tagging. E.g. the example produces a PDF 2.3 and adobe complains that it doesn't know this version :-). It writes directly into the PDF catalog, and into the Info dictionary, and creates its own XMP-data. So it is not compatible with the PDF management.

[mbertucci47]

So should this be "no-support"?

[FrankMittelbach]

I think so (for now at least). perhaps with a comment stating what would need to change in the class