Re: DocBook - db2pdf and db2ps problems

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

Henning Hansen <hh@2m.dk> writes:

> On Sat 17 Feb, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> I don't think a complete file will be needed, all that matters is that
> if I have a 'µ' character in the text, I will get no Postscript output.
> The .tex file will still contain the 'µ' character as it is, and dvips
> will report the following and create Postscript output with no text:
> 
> This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2001.02.21:0921' -> _test.ps
> <texc.pro><8r.enc><texps.pro><special.pro><color.pro>. <lbmr.pfb>This is DVIPS,
> t1part module
> lbmr.pfb: No such file or directory
> 
> I get the same result if I replace 'µ' by '&micro;'

Yes, this is the case I'm looking for.  This ought to work.

I'm going to followup with this with a bug on tetex I guess if I can
reproduce it.

> However, using '&mu;' or '&mgr;' with ps2html means the \Character{956}
> ends up as '&#956;' im my HTML files, which my browser doesn't like and
> simply displays as '&956;'.

Define "browser". Do you get the smae results in Netscape 6 or
Mozilla?

> It works - but it should not be neccesary ?

Well, I hardly intend to write tons of machinery to work-around broken
browsers.  But patches may or may not be accepted. I don't believe we
can (or should) solve on the SGML toolchain level.

> > > >  - BeginPage tag:
> > > > 
> > > >    The <beginpage> tag does not seem to work at all, it's supposed to
> > > >    induce a pageshift in printed output.

The root of your problem is a misunderstanding on what the <beginpage>
tag is for.  Read
<URL:http://www.docbook.org/tdg/html/beginpage.html>.  It does not
cause a page break.  DocBook is logical, not presentational,
markup. Thus there is no element for causing a page break, nor should
there be.

So this is no foul, no bug.

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>