Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 23:08 -0400 schrieb Adrian Mariano: [..] > > > I don't actually know anything about docbook, I was just trying to > > > assemble the scripts to do the above. It sounds like either my > > > texinfo source is defective > > > > Hm. Not sure. Your texinfo produces fine Docbook XML, so I don't think, > > it's "defective" ... > > > > > or the texinfo command that generated the > > > docbook file isn't doing the right thing. > > > > ... but it produces a book instead of a refentry. So I think, the > > command doesn't do the right job for you. You should check, when/if this > > command prepares a refentry from texinfo files. > > It appears that it never prepares a refentry. At least, there's no > mention of this possibility. Is this something that could be easily > wrapped around the output that is produced? Or would it be more > involved?
I guess, you would need to (a) write your own custom stylesheet to produce groff output from a book or (b) write an own stylesheet that converts the book into a refentry, which can then be processed with the original stylesheets. Maybe there are more possibilities. You should ask on the docbook-apps mailing list. > > > Note, however, that the example you mention above didn't work either: > > > > > > % docbook2x-man examp.xml > > > /usr/bin/iconv: illegal input sequence at position 526 > > > /usr/bin/db2x_manxml: program in pipeline exited with an error > > > > Do you use an ext3 filesystem with dir_index enabled? You are maybe > > bitten by > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430118 > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425928 > > > > Can you check this? > > > > dumpe2fs /dev/whatever | grep "Filesystem features" > > Looks like I do have ext3 with dir_index enabled: > > Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode dir_index filetype > needs_recovery sparse_super large_file > > I couldn't figure out from reading the book reports: is there a fix > for this? "Fix" /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini and move > [XML::SAX::Expat] > http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1 > http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities = 1 > http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities = 1 to the end of the file, as also mentioned in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=67;bug=425928. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
