Re: [xmlroff] Assertions fail on trivial example

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

"W. Borgert" <de...@de...> writes:
> Quoting Tony Graham <Ton...@Su...>:
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>
> Done.

Great.

>> I would have also said that '--compat' was documented in the README and in
>> xmlroff.fo (and shortly in an xmlroff man page from Oliver Kiddle).  If it
>
> Yes, --compat works fine for my example. Thanks!
>
> I somehow didn't realise, that I need this option. A manual
> page (hopefully a DocBook refentry?) will be good for people
> like me.

It occurred to me later that the website documentation doesn't cover it.

I'm working on reusing Oliver's manpage on the website, but I'd like to find a
better way than that used for reusing the conformance information between the
xmlroff manual and the website.

Anybody interested in writing the XSL to include a DocBook manpage into a
DocBook website page?  Anybody got a smarter way of doing it, e.g., with
XInclude?

>> > libpango1.0-dev      1.12.3-1
>>
>> Are these the packages that you have to use or the packages that you used?
>
> These are the packages, that I used to build xmlroff.
>
>> In principle, if you're not using the Cairo backend, the minimum Pango
>> version
>> is 1.6.  Pango 1.12 is pretty recent, and even when the Cairo backend is
>> enabled, the minimum Pango version is 1.10.
>
> Good.
>
> I will do more tests, esp. with multi-language input...

That would be good.  That part doesn't get much exercise, despite it being
Pango's promise of easy multi-language processing that prompted basing xmlroff
on Pango all those years ago.

If you could manage to write your multilingual tests in a form suitable for
inclusion in the xmlroff testsuite, that would be even better.

Regards,


Tony.