[debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Re: maint-guide: FTBFS: debiandoc2latexps: ERROR: maint-guide.ja.dvi could not be generated properly

[Osamu Aoki]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:35:57AM +0100, Danai SAE-HAN wrote:
> From: Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org>
> 
> > > > http://people.debian.org/~frank/maint-guide.zh_TW.tex
> > > 
> > > Ah, I think what's gone wrong: you need to run the "fixlatex" script
> > > as well.
> > > (Now that "-s" option will be coming in quite handy, Osamu. ;)
> > 
> > That option wqas used to work around woody latex issues.
> > It was not needed for sarge and etch as far as I understand.
> 
> The problem hasn't disappeared, and probably never will. :/
> The reason is that Big5 encoding uses the backslash character in its
> own encoding.  That's pretty problematic for a language like TeX.
> So what bin/fixlatex actually does is just the same as what the
> command "bg5latex" does: fix all instances where a backslash is
> encountered and make it TeX-readable.

Oh, I see.  We still need this locale specific tric for all
debiandoc-sgml generated file.  That means I need to reactivate default 
fixlatex in the debiandoc-sgml.

> It worked in the qref source because qref used the script in its own
> bin/fixlatex.  Perhaps it's best to re-enable the Perl lines in the
> fixlatex script of debiandoc-sgml, to delete fixlatex from qref and to
> make all packages refer to /usr/share/debiandoc-sgml/fixlatex
> instead.
> 
> Problem is that when I do
> 
> $ debiandoc2latex -s /usr/share/debiandoc-sgml/fixlatex -l zh_TW maint-guide.zh_TW.sgml
> 
> I don't get a working .tex file, and when I do
> 
> $ debiandoc2latex -s /usr/share/debiandoc-sgml/fixlatex -l zh_TW maint-guide.zh_TW.sgml test.tex
> 
> the script doesn't expect an outfile.

This is available in CVS version.
 
> /usr/share/debiandoc-sgml/fixlatex mentions that only
> debiandoc2latexpdf expects an outfile.  But even debiandoc2latexpdf
> expects only one file, then inputfile.  Could you fix this?  Thanks.
> 
> 
> > > I'm getting the maint-guide package and see how it is made.
> > The build script s simple and straightforward.  It does not have extras
> > like index generation which Jens did for debian-reference.
> 
> Indeed, and it also compiles a lot faster. :D
> I have got it working, after I ran the perl command in bin/fixlatex.
> 
> $ cat maint-guide.zh_TW.tex |  perl -p \ 
>   -e 's/([\x80-\xff])\\textbackslash\{\}/$1\\/g;' \
>   -e 's/([\x80-\xff])\\textasciitilde\{\}/$1\~/g;' \
>   -e 's/([\x80-\xff])\\textasciicircum\{\}/$1\^/g;' \
>   -e 's/([\x80-\xff])\\\}/$1\}/g;' -e 's/([\x80-\xff])\\\{/$1\{/g;' \
>   -e 's/([\x80-\xff])\\\_/$1_/g;' | bg5conv > test.tex
> $ latex test.tex

OK.  Fixed in CVS.  I will upload soon.

Osamu