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Simpara error for unlabeled reference to anchor

Pieter V — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:41:39 -0000

I was trying to convert an asciidoc file to pdf using dblatex and noticed that some cross references were not rendered correctly (shown as [?simpara]). I tried dblatex version 0.3-1 (and 0.2.12-4) on an Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS.

Further investigation showed that this issue is only present for a cross reference without a predefined label, towards and anchor which is not directly followed by a section or chapter declaration.

In attachment you can find a simple docbook xml example file which can be used to reproduce the issue. In this example 2 anchors are set:
- koekoek : in the middle of a chapter
- koekoek2 : an anchor directly followed by a chapter declaration

4 cross references are also present:

- reference to koekoek without a label (<xref linkend="koekoek"/>) : this one fails with the [?simpara] output in PDF
- reference to koekoek with a static label (<link linkend="koekoek">A nice label for koekoek</link>) : this one works fine
- reference to koekoek2 without a label (<xref linkend="koekoek2"/>) : this one works fine & results in a label with the chapter number of the chapter declaration just after the anchor
- reference to koekoek with a static label (<link linkend="koekoek2">A nice label for koekoek2</link>) : this one works fine

I've tried the same conversion with the FOP tool in which all four cross references work fine. They use the chapter number and title of the first chapter declaration which precedes the anchor declaration. Perhaps this solution can be used for dblatex also.

catalog handling (debian)

Thomas Harding — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:08:01 -0000

there is a simple way to handle xml catalog in Debian:

sudo xmlcatalog --noout --add delegateSystem http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/xsl/ file:///etc/xml/db2latex-xsl.xml /etc/xml/catalog

sudo xmlcatalog --noout --add delegateURI http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/xsl/ file:///etc/xml/db2latex-xsl.xml /etc/xml/catalog

sudo xmlcatalog --noout --add rewriteURI http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/xsl/ file:///usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/xsl/db2latex/latex/ /etc/xml/db2latex-xsl.xml

sudo xmlcatalog --noout --add rewriteSystem http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/xsl/ file:///usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/xsl/db2latex/latex/ /etc/xml/db2latex-xsl.xml

So, it might be putted (without the sudo) in the preinst/postinst package scripts

However, I didn't test case for --del, but I think it is simple, too.

verbatim

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:13:52 -0000

I think, there is a mistake in verbatim.mod.xsl in <xsl:template name="verbatim.apply.templates"> in <xsl:when test="$latex.use.fancyvrb='1'"> there is \begin{Verbatim} instead of \begin{verbatim} and it makes misteakes in other case sensitive tools such as vlna in czech language....

inlinemediaobject <-> simplelist wrong alignment (b<->c)

aleks — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:55:51 -0000

<book>
<chapter id="ch1">
<inlinemediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="pic.jpg"/>
</imageobject>
</inlinemediaobject>
<simplelist type="vert">
<member>Member 1</member>
<member>Member 2</member>
<member>Member 3</member>
</simplelist>
</chapter>
</book>

Center of simplelist will be aligned with bottom of pic.jpg.

\begin{tabular}[b]{l} fixes it (patch included)

Ambiguous rule match in Saxon

kemo — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:17:31 -0000

When converting from Docbook to Latex using Saxon,
there is an error:

Recoverable error
Ambiguos rule match for /book/chapter/figure
matches both "*"
line 178 common/gentext.xsl
line 711 xref.mod.xsl

Problem with includegraphic

zonzamas — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:43:17 -0000

If you don't specify the scale attribute in docbook
imagedata tag translation to latex inserts a NaN in the
includegraphic's scale attribute.

Table rotating

Roman Joost — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:11:14 -0000

I'm currently writing my thesis in DocBook and using
db2latex to transform the XML to PDF via LaTeX.

I needed a rotated table, so I added a new element
called sidewaystable, added it to my customzied DTD,
added a mapping etc. It works quite well.

Actually, I think this approach is a bit cumbersome,
because DocBook overs a "orient" attribute, which can
handle the orientation of a table. So, I don't know in
particular, where db2latex calls the
latex-mappings.xml. If you're able to point me to some
XSL snipplet in block.mod.xsl, and how to call the
mapping for the table in portrait mode I could offer a
feature to use rotated tables with db2latex.

I'm trying to find this section where and how the
mapping is called by myself, but you guys know your
stylesheets better than I do and know how the best
solution for this subject will be.

Thanks!

Should allow sect1 doctype

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:31:30 -0000

The DocBook spec says that any element is allowed to be
the root element in a valid DocBook document. Many of
my documents begin at the <sect1> level. The
stylesheets only seem to work at the <book> level. Can
they be extended to work at all levels? Or at least sect1?

article within a book

B. Thomas Adler — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:32:06 -0000

Article tags can be contained within a "book" or 'part"
tag, but db2latex still spits out the latex-preamble
code when it encounters the article tag, so that there
are multiple preambles within the final latex file.

error in "latest release' instructions

B. Thomas Adler — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:05:52 -0000

The instructions on http://db2latex/install.html tell
one to use:

$ lynx -source
http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/get-db2latex.sh | sh

to download the latest release of db2latex. This does
not work for two reasons:

1) the host cvs.db2latex.sourceforge.net never responds
to requests, so the login is unable to proceed.
Changing this to cvs.sourceforge.net seems to work.

2) once able to "cvs login", the checkout still fails,
because the TAG defined in the script does not exist.