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From: Noah S. <ns...@by...> - 2008-11-02 21:11:59
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Hello, How can I do either: *) disable detailed node listings *) add the detailed text to node listings I am converting from DocBook to Texinfo. Thanks, -- Noah Slater, http://bytesexual.org/nslater |
From: Noah S. <ns...@by...> - 2008-11-02 20:56:42
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Hey, How can I generate something like this in the Texinfo output: @example make clean @end example I have tried using <informalexample> and <example> in my DocBook to no avail. Thanks, -- Noah Slater, http://bytesexual.org/nslater |
From: Peter V. <pv...@ge...> - 2008-05-31 12:45:36
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Hello Daniel. I was waiting a bit for other opinions but still no answers... В Вск, 25/05/2008 в 14:02 +0200, Daniel Leidert пишет: > Am Mittwoch, den 21.05.2008, 12:19 +0400 schrieb Peter Volkov: > > There exists file collision between docbook-utils and > > docbook2x packages and that's why most distributions use > > --program-transform-name to make different naming of programs in > > docbook2x. Recently I've received bug report that our naming convention > > does not follow debian one. > > I have also an open bug report about the naming conflict: > http://bugs.debian.org/262990 Well we are not alone with this problem :) > > I've checked few other distributions and > > found that they use: > > > > AltLinux: --program-transform-name='s/docbook2/db2x_docbook2/' > > Redhat EL, Fedore: --program-transform-name='s/docbook2/db2x_docbook2/' > > Debian: --program-transform-name="s/^docbook2/docbook2x-/" > > OpenSuse: just moves files to docbook-to-man and docbook-to-texi > > Mandriva: does nothing > > Gentoo: --program-transform-name='s,\(docbook2.*\),\1.pl,' > > Thanks for that information. Unfortunately the Gentoo conventions would > conflict with our (Debian) guidelines (no script extensions in /usr/bin > and Co). But see my proposal at the end. Maybe we can handle this > without a script extension. Ok, then this is not a solution. > > So what I'm looking for is some consistent naming that we could agree on > > and ask upstream to add some notes into their package. > > I would love to have this issue fixed upstream. Your mail did not get mailing list so Steve could miss your mail thus I've added him to CC list now. > > Personally I like > > names which starts with the same name as original utility to simplify > > search of necessary tool in shell (with tab competition). But what do > > you think about this? What upstream can suggest? > > AFAIK, the docbook-utils (guess, that's the same as sgml-common-utils) Uh I've mixed names. Our package is called app-text/docbook-sgml-utils. But yes it's the same as docbook-utils. I've changed the subject to better reflect name. > forked the docbook2x programs. So normally they should change the name. > But the author is not active anymore. So Steve, are you willing to > change the name? Considering the fact, that docbook2x can and will > handle XML instead of just SGML (docbook-utils), what about simply > changing the name to > > docbookx2foo > ^ > > On the other side, the suite is called docbook2x, so also > > docbook2xfoo > ^ > would fit and not conflict with the docbook-utils. > > Opinions? I was not aware about pre-history of these packages. I'm curious now, why maintainers of didn't change names in docbook-utils? It seems rather hard (as too many packages depend on docbook-utils in Gentoo: http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/dindex/app-text/docbook-sgml-utils ) but still possible to change names in docbook-utils and naming is rather obvious, taking your suggestion as an example - docbooksgml2man and docbooksgml2texi as this package works with sgml only and only docbook2man and docbook2texi collide. What do you thing about this? On the other hand I have not problems with your suggestion... P.S. I've just found that there is a list for inter-distribution communication: dis...@li... May be we should raise this problem there to try to get responses from other distributors too? -- Peter. |
From: Peter V. <pv...@ge...> - 2008-05-22 17:14:08
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Seems that we found the issue. That was missing dependency on dev-perl/XML-LibXML which was not mentioned in installation instructions. In any was thanks for your time, and may be you have some comments :) -- Peter. |
From: Peter V. <pv...@ge...> - 2008-05-21 08:23:04
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Hello, guys. There exists file collision between sgml-common-utils and docbook2x packages and that's why most distributions use --program-transform-name to make different naming of programs in docbook2x. Recently I've received bug report that our naming convention does not follow debian one. I've checked few other distributions and found that they use: AltLinux: --program-transform-name='s/docbook2/db2x_docbook2/' Redhat EL, Fedore: --program-transform-name='s/docbook2/db2x_docbook2/' Debian: --program-transform-name="s/^docbook2/docbook2x-/" OpenSuse: just moves files to docbook-to-man and docbook-to-texi Mandriva: does nothing Gentoo: --program-transform-name='s,\(docbook2.*\),\1.pl,' So what I'm looking for is some consistent naming that we could agree on and ask upstream to add some notes into their package. Personally I like names which starts with the same name as original utility to simplify search of necessary tool in shell (with tab competition). But what do you think about this? What upstream can suggest? P.S. It's not always obvious for me if I picked up correct maintainer, so in case I did mistake, please, forward this mail to correct maintainer in your distribution. Thank you. With best regards, -- Peter. |
From: Peter V. <pv...@ge...> - 2008-05-20 10:58:45
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Hello. I found that make check fails with the following error: make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/docbook2X-0.8.8-r1/work/docbook2X-0.8.8/test' Making check in refentry make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/docbook2X-0.8.8-r1/work/docbook2X-0.8.8/test/refentry' ../../perl/db2x_xsltproc -C ../../xslt/catalog.xml -s man -o sgml2xml.mxml sgml2xml.xml /usr/bin/perl ../../perl/db2x_manxml --utf8trans-program=../../utf8trans/utf8trans --utf8trans-map=../../charmaps/roff.charmap sgml2xml.mxml /usr/bin/iconv: illegal input sequence at position 285 ../../perl/db2x_manxml: program in pipeline exited with an error make[2]: *** [sgml2xml.1] Error 1 make[2]: *** Deleting file `sgml2xml.1' rm sgml2xml.mxml make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/docbook2X-0.8.8-r1/work/docbook2X-0.8.8/test/refentry' make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/docbook2X-0.8.8-r1/work/docbook2X-0.8.8/test' make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 Seems that it fails on unicode chars... If I run: ../../perl/db2x_xsltproc -C ../../xslt/catalog.xml -s man -o sgml2xml.mxml sgml2xml.xml and modify sgml2xml.mxml by replacing '…' and '—', into '.' and '-' /usr/bin/perl ../../perl/db2x_manxml --utf8trans-program=../../utf8trans/utf8trans --utf8trans-map=../../charmaps/roff.charmap sgml2xml.mxml works. Do you have any ideas why do I see this errors and how to fix them? Thank you in advance, -- Peter. |
From: Baurzhan I. <ib...@ra...> - 2007-10-01 15:34:47
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Hello, I need to have multiple #include lines in funcsynopsisinfo, as in socket(2). With docbook2man from Debian's docbook-utils 0.6.14, I get funcsynopsisinfo translated as \fB #include #include This makes all #includes formatted as one line. socket(2) uses .B #include .br #include How can I do this with docbook2man? Thanks in advance, -- Baurzhan Ismagulov http://www.kz-easy.com/ |
From: Noah S. <ns...@gm...> - 2007-08-10 15:13:39
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Hey, Is docbook2x under active development? I am currently using docbook2x as a critical component with a GNU package. GNU are also using docbook2x to format many texi files for a large amount of packages. I have submitted a number of bugs at the sourceforge project but nothing seems to be happening with them - perhaps I have been submitting them to the wrong place? Thank you, Noah -- "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman |
From: Orion P. <or...@co...> - 2007-07-09 21:02:01
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Steve Cheng wrote: > > Yes, but it requires a little stylesheet customization. > You can add this small template: > > <xsl:template match="book" mode="for-menu-title"> > <xsl:text>PLplot</xsl:text> > </xsl:template> > Where *exactly* do I add this? Sorry, totally naive about this stuff. I tried adding it to my xml imput but get: /usr/bin/db2x_xsltproc -s texi -o /export/home/orion/fedora/plplot/devel/plplot-5.7.3/fedora/doc/docbook/src/plplotdoc.txml /export/home/orion/fedora/plplot/devel/plplot-5.7.3/fedora/doc/docbook/src/plplotdoc.xml-info /export/home/orion/fedora/plplot/devel/plplot-5.7.3/fedora/doc/docbook/src/plplotdoc.xml-info:295: namespace error : Namespace prefix xsl on template is not defined <xsl:template match="book" mode="for-menu-title"> ^ /export/home/orion/fedora/plplot/devel/plplot-5.7.3/fedora/doc/docbook/src/plplotdoc.xml-info:296: namespace error : Namespace prefix xsl on text is not defined <xsl:text>PLplot</xsl:text> ^ /export/home/orion/fedora/plplot/devel/plplot-5.7.3/fedora/doc/docbook/src/plplotdoc.xml-info:299: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document <book id="plplot-docbook" xreflabel="PLplot"> ^ unable to parse /export/home/orion/fedora/plplot/devel/plplot-5.7.3/fedora/doc/docbook/src/plplotdoc.xml-info Do I need to modify the texi stylesheet directly? I this case I cannot modify the installed version, I would need to make a copy and somehow point db2x_xsltproc to that version. > > In all likelihood, I will also just make it the default, in the next > version of docbook2X, to use the "abbreviated" titles for the > directory entry. Makes sense. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane or...@co... Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com |
From: Steve C. <st...@go...> - 2007-07-05 17:23:58
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On 7/3/07, Orion Poplawski <or...@co...> wrote: > I end up with the following in my .texi: > > INFO-DIR-SECTION Scientific Visualization > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY > * The PLplot Plotting Library: (plplotdoc). The PLplot Plotting Library > END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY > > but I want: > > INFO-DIR-SECTION Scientific Visualization > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY > * PLplot: (plplotdoc). The PLplot Plotting Library > END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY > > *without* changing the <title> tag. Possible? Yes, but it requires a little stylesheet customization. You can add this small template: <xsl:template match="book" mode="for-menu-title"> <xsl:text>PLplot</xsl:text> </xsl:template> (I haven't yet tested this myself, I'll try to do when I get back home this weekend.) In all likelihood, I will also just make it the default, in the next version of docbook2X, to use the "abbreviated" titles for the directory entry. Hope this helps, and if you need further clarification, please don't hesitate to ask. -- Steve Cheng 鄭君博 http://www.gold-saucer.org |
From: Orion P. <or...@co...> - 2007-07-03 18:21:47
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Hello - I'm starting with a docbook manual with the following (relevant) info section: <book id="plplot-docbook"> <bookinfo> <title>The PLplot Plotting Library</title> <titleabbrev role="texinfo-file">plplotdoc</titleabbrev> <abstract role="texinfo-node" xreflabel="PLplot"> <para>The PLplot Plotting Library</para> </abstract> <subjectset scheme="texinfo-directory"> <subject><subjectterm>Scientific Visualization</subjectterm></subject> </subjectset> I end up with the following in my .texi: INFO-DIR-SECTION Scientific Visualization START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * The PLplot Plotting Library: (plplotdoc). The PLplot Plotting Library END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY but I want: INFO-DIR-SECTION Scientific Visualization START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * PLplot: (plplotdoc). The PLplot Plotting Library END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY *without* changing the <title> tag. Possible? -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane or...@co... Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com |
From: Norbert S. <no...@li...> - 2007-05-20 11:11:42
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Hi Steve I've written some stylesheets to transform refentry nodes into mediawiki=20 articles which are styled as man pages and can be imported directly into th= e=20 mediawiki system. It would be great if you find them worth adding them to the docbook2x packa= ge.=20 Please let me know if you are interested in. Thanks Norbert =2D-=20 OpenPGP public key http://www.linuxnetworks.de/norbert.pubkey.asc |
From: Noah S. <ns...@gm...> - 2007-05-16 09:04:12
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Hello, I am running docbook2x-texi on a book and getting the following message: /book[@id='foo']: No description for directory entry Could someone help me with this, I have no idea what it means? Also, how actively developed is docbook2x? The mailing list only seems to be used by spammers. Thanks, Noah -- "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman |
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From: Steve C. <st...@go...> - 2007-04-28 13:38:27
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I assume that you are using version < 0.8.8 of docbook2X. Version 0.8.8 fixes[*] the problem you are experiencing, but for earlier versions you can work around the problem as follows: Pass the command-line option --string-param output-file="desired-filename-without-extension" to docbook2x-texi. Let me know if this helps. -- Steve Cheng 鄭君博 http://www.gold-saucer.org [*] Unfortunately, 0.8.8 introduces several problems of its own, but I hope to push out a new version in the next few days. |
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From: Noah S. <ns...@gm...> - 2007-04-25 19:10:37
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Hello, I am having major difficulties getting docbook2x-texi to create titles or meaningful file names. No matter what I try the output is always "untitled.texi" in the source and for the file name. I have attached an example input and output file. I know that I must have missed something... your help is appreciated. Thanks, Noah -- "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman |