[Refdb-users] refdb and SGML/docbook issues

[Marc B. <ba...@sm...>]

Hi,

first of all, let me say that I am a real docbook/SGML beginner,
so I might say studip things or overlook something obvious.

1) Getting it to work

The last days I fiddled with getting refdb+docbooc+jade going on
my Debian woody system. For that I had to modify some things in
the refdb distribution (only minor changes, but when you don't
know where you need to interfere ..)

I had to add a line "CATALOG /etc/sgml/catalog" to
/usr/local/share/refdb/dsssl/catalog to get the Public identifiers
mapped correctly.

I also had to replace the 'sgmldecl="docbook.dcl" ' line by
'sgmldecl=' in /usr/local/bin/runbib and in /usr/local/bin/refdbjade

Now it seems to work fine.

2) First time error

I guess it is normal/OK that in the first pass, when the *.bib.sgml
file does not yet exist, there is an error message about this ?

/usr/bin/jade:rapport.sgml:168:0:E: cannot find "rapport.bib.sgml"; [..]

as well as the "errors" for each citation reference

/usr/bin/jade:rapport.sgml:16:66:X: reference to non-existent ID[..]

Or am I missing something ?

3) Other languages than english ?

As I am currently writing a text in French, I'd like to have the
"Reference List" text replaced with something in French (for instance
"Bibliographie" or so ..). How do I go about this ?

4) Multiple entities

I have tried to follow the hint in the documentation about using
sgmlnorm for documents with multiple entities. It works, but my
solution seems particularly ugly .. maybe I did overlook something ?
I actually use a custom header with Docbook ref and inclusion of
bibliography, then paste the output of sgmlnorm to that, then
add a &bibliography reference to the entity before the final
</book>,</article>  or whatever.

Is there a better way ?

I attach my slightly modified Makefile and header and footer as
example.

Thanks in advance for any hints,
  Marc Baaden