Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 17:37 -0400 schrieb Adrian Mariano: [..] > > First: Can you please attach the file instead of quoting it inline? It > > would really, really help to decrease the necessary work for me. > > > > Sure. I only attached them that way because the debian bug system > didn't seem to give me an alternative.
Did you use reportbug? In this case, check the `?' output: a = attach. > > > <book lang="en"> > > [snip] > > > > Second: Manpages are of <refentry> root element. But your book doesn't > > contain any refentry element. For an example of a manpage written in > > bocbook XML > > see /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl/examples/foo.1.example_manpage.xml.gz. > > > > So to my knowledge, you/docbook2x cannot produce any manpage from the > > file you gave. You probably need to adjust the units.xml creation from > > the texinfo file to create a manpage source. > > I'll provide some background: I was contacted by somebody associated > with ithe docbook project (Eric). He asked that I make the manual to my > program (units) available in docbook format. I have my manual written > in texinfo and it is being translated by a fantastically crude script > into roff. Apparently Eric tried to translate my roff to docbook and > it failed because I have bad roff. He suggested I could instead > create docbook directly from the texinfo and make the roff from the > docbook. This will only work for refentry elements. > I don't actually know anything about docbook, I was just trying to > assemble the scripts to do the above. It sounds like either my > texinfo source is defective Hm. Not sure. Your texinfo produces fine Docbook XML, so I don't think, it's "defective" ... > or the texinfo command that generated the > docbook file isn't doing the right thing. ... but it produces a book instead of a refentry. So I think, the command doesn't do the right job for you. You should check, when/if this command prepares a refentry from texinfo files. > Note, however, that the example you mention above didn't work either: > > % docbook2x-man examp.xml > /usr/bin/iconv: illegal input sequence at position 526 > /usr/bin/db2x_manxml: program in pipeline exited with an error Do you use an ext3 filesystem with dir_index enabled? You are maybe bitten by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430118 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425928 Can you check this? dumpe2fs /dev/whatever | grep "Filesystem features" Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]