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

[Danai SAE-HAN ( 韓達耐 )]

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.

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.

/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


Cheers!



Danai SAE-HAN
韓達耐

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