jade catalog problems for Cygnus DocBook 4.1 XML

["Alan W. Irwin" <irwin at beluga dot phys dot uvic dot ca>]

Eric, thanks for that earlier acknowledgment that you have at least seen my
pdfjadetex bug report.  Since you have so much to do I will be patient, and
I will try to help out as much as possible by what I hope are clear bug
reports and examples. While we wait for you to get a chance to sort out
these problems I have found, a subset of our team can build our
documentation on Debian DocBook 4.1 XML instead.  But we are looking forward
to when this will all work properly on Cygnus/RedHat as well.

This current post is a bug report for entities that Cygnus just cannot seem
to find although they are defined within the catalog chain.  I believe these
entity problems are completely independent of the pdfjadetex problem I
reported before. I am only copying that other bug report below so you will
know all the details of my system.  Sorry that I could not actually find a
solution of these entity problems, but here are the symptoms for a simple
example with egrave.

jade -c /etc/sgml/catalog -d
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.57/print/docbook.dsl -t tex
/usr/share/sgml/xml.dcl hello_world.xml
jade:hello_world.xml:6:26:E: general entity "egrave" not defined and no
default entity

The example was identical to that used before to demonstrate the pdfjadetex
problem except that I put an è reference in the title to demonstrate
the problem that results in the above jade error message.  Here are the
first few hello_world.xml lines including the è

<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1//EN" [
]>
<book>
<bookinfo>
<date>1997-10-11</date>
<title>My first bookl&egrave;t</title>

On Cygnus, I get this error message and the appropriate symbol is missing
from the *.ps output once jadetex and dvips are run.  On Debian I do not get
the above error and the appropriate symbol is in the postscript output.

For egrave, I worked backward through the chain of catalog entries in the
following way:

find /usr/share/sgml -type f | xargs grep egrave
/usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/ISOlat1.ent:<!ENTITY egrave SDATA "[egrave]"--=small e, grave accent-->

find /usr/share/sgml -type f | xargs grep ISOlat1.ent
/usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog:PUBLIC "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN" ISOlat1.ent

find /etc/sgml/ -type f | xargs grep sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog
/etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat:CATALOG /usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog
/etc/sgml/xml-docbook-4.1.cat:CATALOG /usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog
/etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-4.1.cat:CATALOG /usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog

cat /etc/sgml/catalog
CATALOG /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat
CATALOG /etc/sgml/xml-docbook-4.1.cat
CATALOG /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-4.1.cat

Perhaps there is some minor typo in this chain of catalogs, but I cannot
spot it so I have no idea why egrave is undefined as far as jade is
concerned.  This is just a wild guess, but perhaps jade cannot handle a
four-level deep catalog chain as above?

To test that wild guess I tried specifying two catalog entries as a
colon-separated list, i.e., 
jade -c \
/etc/sgml/catalog:/usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/ISOlat1.ent \
[...]

but jade does not allow specifying two separate catalogs as a colon-separated
list this way so that got nowhere.

I have just given you details of the egrave example, but we find similar
undefined problems for nbsp, ndash, and mdash entities on Cygnus that do not
occur on Debian.  Probably the solution for these additional undefined
entitities will be obvious once the egrave problem is solved.

Alan

email: irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca
phone: 250-727-2902	FAX: 250-721-7715
snail-mail:
Dr. Alan W. Irwin
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 
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Linux-powered astrophysics
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> Three pdfjadetex questions/comments, then details of my system.
> 
> (1) Has anybody gotten the pdfjadetex command to work with the latest Cygnus docbook?
> 
> My 100+ pages of documentation definitely don't work, but to reproduce the
> bug in an easy way I use the hello world file from
> http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro/get-going.html#HELLO-WORLD
> with the first 2 lines replaced by
> 
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1//EN" [
> ]>
> 
> I created hello_world.tex using
> 
> jade -c /etc/sgml/catalog \
> -d  /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.57/print/docbook.dsl \
> -t tex /usr/share/sgml/xml.dcl hello_world.xml
> 
> To check hello_world.tex is a good file I executed
> 
> jadetex hello_world.tex
> 
> The dvi file could be displayed with xdvi without problems.
> 
> ******However, I cannot create a pdf version of this document**********
> 
> pdfjadetex hello_world.tex 
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> 
> Note this command works fine on my Debian box with this simple example and
> also my 100+ pages of documentation.
> 
> (2) Has anybody been able to recreate pdfjadetex.fmt (and jadetex.fmt) with
> more resources on a Cygnus-RedHat 6.2 system?  Files are missing in the
> jadetex rpm, but even when I replace those files, I cannot recreate
> pdfjadetex.fmt or jadetex.fmt.  This is unlikely to be a tetex problem
> because I can recreate all *.fmt files *except pdfjadetex.fmt and
> jadetex.fmt*.
> 
> It has been suggested previously on this list that the "I'm stymied" problem
> might be due to lack of resources.  I successfully create extra resources
> for pdfjadetex.fmt and jadetex.fmt on my Debian box with the appropriate
> pdfjadetex.ini and jadetex.ini files and the appropriate special
> configuration file for fmtutil configuration file.  (These are the files
> that are missing from the Cygnus jadetex.rpm file).  However, even when I
> copy the missing files from my Debian box to the Cygnus RedHat 6.2 box, the
> fmtutil command does nothing when the special configuration file is
> specified.  The procedure returns after a second or two with no error
> messages or any other kind of output.  OTOH, if I execute fmtutil --all
> (i.e., using the standard configuration file) on the Cygnus box, all *.fmt
> files are recreated with parameters specified in texmf.cnf except for
> pdfjadetex.fmt and jadetex.fmt which remain completely unchanged with
> the old dates.
> 
> (3) I am beginning to feel the pdfjadetex problem might be more fundamental
> than lack of resources since hello_world takes up so few resources, and any
> attempt to reformat pdfjadetex (and jadetex) with more resources also fails.
> So I would be most interested whether anybody can get either (1) or (2) to
> work.
> 
> ****System Details****
> 
> (1) Redhat 6.2 box completely updated with latest bug, security, etc., fixes from
> the Redhat site.
> 
> (2) Vanilla RedHat 6.2 Docbook stripped out.  Here is the list of package files
> whose equivalent package was removed.
> docbook-3.1-3.noarch.rpm
> jade-1.2.1-9.i386.rpm
> jadetex-2.7-2.i386.rpm
> sgml-common-0.1-7.noarch.rpm
> sgml-tools-1.0.9-5.i386.rpm
> stylesheets-0.13rh-4.noarch.rpm
> 
> (3) Latest Cygnus DocBook installed.
> 
> docbook-dtd31-sgml-1.0-6.noarch.rpm
> docbook-dtd41-sgml-1.0-6.noarch.rpm
> docbook-dtd41-xml-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
> docbook-style-dsssl-1.57-2.noarch.rpm
> docbook-utils-0.6-1.noarch.rpm
> jade-1.2.1-6.i386.rpm
> jadetex-2.20-4.noarch.rpm
> perl-SGMLSpm-1.03ii-3.noarch.rpm
> sgml-common-0.4-1.noarch.rpm
> 
> ******Background:
> 
> I am part of the documentation team for the plplot project
> (http://www.plplot.org.), and we successfully build our 100+ pages of
> documentation using the Debian DocBook tools.  But those in the group
> without access to Debian need to build the documentation on RedHat 6.2, and
> I would like to recommend the Cygnus solution to them for this purpose.  So
> far it works fairly well except for this pdf generation problem, and I hope
> somebody can help to get that straightened out.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Alan
> 
> email: irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca
> phone: 250-727-2902	FAX: 250-721-7715
> snail-mail:
> Dr. Alan W. Irwin
> Department of Physics and Astronomy,
> University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
> Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 
> __________________________
> 
> Linux-powered astrophysics
> __________________________
> 
> 
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