Re: Any luck with DocBook/SGML 3.1 with Red Hat 7.3?

[Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat dot com>]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 10:21:03PM +0200, Peter Toft wrote:

> I try to build from DocBook/SGML 3.1-sources on Red Hat 
> 7.3
> 
> 1) When I go for HTML-output with Red Hat 6.2 or 7.2 
>    my HTML-files would be named after the tags 
>    "TAG-NAME" I added to my sections: 
>    e.g. <sectN id="TAG-NAME">
>    Now with RH 7.3 all of my outputfile from running
>    docbook2html are named x1346.html and alike - not
>    install.html, introduction.html.

The default value for %use-id-as-filename% is false.  Turn it back on
if you like, in a custom stylesheet.

> 2) When I try to make PDF-output I need to run 
>    jade to give input to the subsequent 
>    index-collection 
>    ( perl ./collateindex.pl -g -o stikord.sgml tempdir/HTML.index)
>    I get lots of errors now with Red Hat 7.3 when I run
>    jade -t sgml -ihtml \
>    -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.9/docbook-utils.dsl#print \
>    -V html-index -V nochunks bog.sgml > ged.html 

The collateindex perl script comes from docbook-dsssl.  I filed a bug
report at sourceforge.net, with a patch, that fixed some problems with
it.

> jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.9/docbook-utils.dsl:422:19:E: 
> reference to undefined variable "%admon-font-family%"
> jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.9/docbook-utils.dsl:416:7:E: 
> reference to undefined variable "HSIZE"
> jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.9/docbook-utils.dsl:478:2:E: 
> too many arguments for function
> jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.76/html/dbhtml.dsl:326:17:E: 
> invalid value for "attributes" characteristic

However this looks more like a mismatch between the docbook-style-dsssl
and docbook-utils packages.  Are they the ones that came with Red Hat
Linux 7.3?

> FYI; I run http://www.sslug.dk/linuxbog - with 13 books
> in Danish with more that 1400 pages. All in 
> SGML/DocBook :)))))))

Is there a test case here that I can try?

Tim.
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