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Re: Problems with DocBook and Spanish.


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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