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Re: pdflatex errors in doc dir


On Jun 28 10:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Warren,
> 
> 
> after I upgrade my server from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18, I now get
> an error message when trying to build the PDFs:
> 
> xmlto --skip-validation --with-dblatex pdf -o cygwin-ug-net/ /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml
> Build the book set list...
> Build the listings...
> XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.3.4)
> ===================================================
> prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
> prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
> prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
> [...]
> Build cygwin-ug-net.pdf
> pdflatex failed
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \bin.
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \cygwin.
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:359: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:359: leading text: that the root path is \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin}
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:360: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:360: leading text: ...} file in \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\etc\fstab}
> [...]
> Unexpected error occured
> Error: pdflatex compilation failed
> 
> All the error message lead to the backslash as a character being
> interpreted as a special character suddenly.  This wasn't the case
> before and, I believe, you probably don't see this when creating
> the docs under Cygwin.

To be more exact:  This affects *only* backslash sequences in the
<filename>...</filename> bracket.

This is ok:

  <screen>
    \\server\share\...
  </screen>

This bombs:

  <filename>\\server\share\foo</filename>

> The package containing the pdflatex tool is called
> 
>   texlive-latex-bin-bin-svn14050.0-20.20130321_r29448.fc18.noarch
> 
> Is this a bug in that package, or are we doing something wrong all
> the time and only a newer pdflatex version is more aggressive in
> error handling?


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat


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