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Re: Problems with DocBook and Spanish.
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Problems with DocBook and Spanish.
- From: Camille Begnis <camille at mandrakesoft dot com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 15:19:00 -0400
- Cc: Kevin Conder <kconder at interaccess dot com>
- Organization: MandrakeSoft
- References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000606131935.28099A-100000@yang.interaccess.com>
- Reply-To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Kevin Conder wrote:
>
> I wrote a user's manual using SGML and the DocBook DTD for work.
> Now they want me to do a Spanish translation.
>
> First I changed my <book> tag to <book lang="es">. I got all
> sorts of error messages like:
>
> ====================================================================
> l.430 \select@language{spanish}
>
> ! Package babel Error: You haven't defined the language spanish yet.
>
> See the babel package documentation for explanation. Type H <return> for
> immediate help.
> ...
> ====================================================================
>
> I followed some suggestions on a Debian mailing-list from last
> September. (I'm using the Linux tool-chain.) I ran 'texconfig' and
> uncommented spanish in the Hypenation section. I also added spanish to
> my jadetex.dtx file so that it reads
> "\RequirePackage[spanish,german,english]{babel}[1997/01/23]" now.
>
> It doesn't work. Help! What else do I need to do?
Rebuild jadetex so that your changes in jadetex.dtx are taken into
account in
jadetex.ltx.
I'll release soon the latest jadetex 2.19 as a Mandrake RPM with support
for many many languages.
Camille
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