#391 LaTeX template titlepage.tex is incompatible with memoir.cls

[John Thorvald Wodder II]

In both docutils 0.16 and the docutils snapshot at revision 8516, the LaTeX2e/XeTeX writers' template titlepage.tex makes use of the titlepage environment. When this is combined with --documentclass=memoir, building the resulting .tex file will fail, as the memoir class does not have an environment by that name; the equivalent environment in memoir is named titlingpage.

A user could work around this by placing the following in their latex-preamble:

\newenvironment{titlepage}%
        {\begin{titlingpage}}%
        {\end{titlingpage}\ignorespacesafterend}

or by just using a custom template, but it would be preferable if docutils took care of this itself automatically.

The following files are attached:
- titling.rst — a sample input file whose LaTeXification fails to build as described above
- titling.tex — the output from rst2latex.py --template=titlepage.tex --documentclass=memoir titling.rst; running pdflatex on it will fail because the titlepage environment is undefined

[Günter Milde]

Thank you for reporting.
IMO, a clean solution would be to ship a template "titlingpage.tex". Could you provide one?

[John Thorvald Wodder II]

titlingpage.tex template attached.

[Günter Milde]

Fixed in r8523.
Thank you for reporting and providing the template.

[John Thorvald Wodder II]

Thanks for the fix! However, you misspelled the name of the new template in the documentation (docutils/docs/user/latex.txt): You wrote "titlinpage.tex", without the 'g' after the 'n'. Might want to fix that before it goes live.

[Günter Milde]

Fixed in Docutils 0.17.
Thanks again for your contribution.