Re: Help Wanted for dict-jargon
On Sep 1, Bob Hilliard (hilliard@debian.org) wrote:
> Michael Wiedmann <mw@miwie.in-berlin.de> writes:
>
> > * Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org> wrote [030830 15:33]:
> >
> >> The jargon file is no longer distributed as a text file, which is
> >> what I have used as source for dict-jargon. The file has been
> >> converted to XML, using the Docbook XSL. It is now distributed as
> >> an HTML tarball and as a tarball containing the "masters and the
> >> production tools used to generate HTML and TeX versions". These are
> >> available from http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/jargsrc.tar.gz and
> >> http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/jargomn-4.4.4.tar.gz.
> >
> > The 'Makefile' includes a target 'jargon.txt'. Given you have
> > installed the 'xmlto' package it should be quite easy to generate a
> > text file out of the distribution tarball. You might have to figure
> > out where some used tools (e.g. 'name-extract') come from.
>
> Thanks for your response. 'name-extract' is in the same
> directory as the Makefile, so that is no problem.
>
> I have tried `make clean', followed by `make jargon.txt'. This
> generates over 4000 lines of errors, then hangs. These errors are
> primarily `entity not defined'. jargon-web.xml (a prerequisite for
> jargon.txt) is generated, but neither the intermediate file
> jargon-web.txt or jargon.txt is generated.
>
> Where are entities normally defined? The undefined entities are
> primarily ones that I would expect to be standard - 'lsquo', 'rsquo',
> 'mdash', 'ouml', etc, so I would expect some standard DTD or
> stylesheet would include them.
The first error is that it cannot find the DTD. The rest are a result of
that. Install docbook-xml, then change
"http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xml/4.1.2/db3xml.dtd"; to
"/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" in jargon.xml.
I did this, and was able to run the xmlto step successfully, i.e., it created
jargon-web.txt. I had other problems because I had none of the programs
listed in the TOOLS variable in the makefile, e.g., getversion, name-extract,
wraptext. HTH.
--
Neil Roeth
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