Re: Bug#178451: docbook2dvi fails to generate dvi files

[jean-philippe.guerard@laposte.net (Jean-Philippe Guérard)]

Le 2003-01-26 12:22:27 +0100, Christian Marillat écrivait :
> reassign 178451 tetex-bin
> thanks
> 
> Jean-Philippe Guérard <jean-philippe.guerard@laposte.net> writes:
> > docbook2dvi seems to fail on every DocBook document I have.
> 
> Nothing is related to this package. Something is broken in tetex. If you
> try to generate the same file with debiandoc2dvi :
> 
> $ debiandoc2dvi big-howto-template.sgml                  
> debiandoc2dvi: ERROR: big-howto-template.dvi could not be generated properly
> debiandoc2dvi: rerun with the -v option to found out why

I fail to understand what you mean. I am trying to produce dvi printout 
from a DocBook SGML file. Using the DocBook tools, I get a jadetex 
error.

Now you try to compile a DocBook SGML file with the DebianDoc tools, and 
it fails (surprise !). Is it supposed to work ? Do you mean that 
DebianDoc is a superset of DocBook ?

How does this relate to the issue I have submited ?

I tried using the debiandoc2dvi tool with the -v option, to see the 
exact error message. The error I get is :

debiandoc2latexdvi: WARNING: overwriting big-howto-template.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.9)
(./big-howto-template.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, 
ngerman, nohyphenation, loaded.

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
[...]

This has nothing to do with the error I have reported, but could be 
related to the fact that DebianDoc seems to expect a <book> at the 
beginning of the document, while this document starts with an <article> 
tag, and does not include any <book> tag.

Thanks anyway for your support.

-- 
Jean-Philippe Guérard -- mailto:jean-philippe.guerard@laposte.net