Package: dblatex Version: 0.2.9-2 Severity: normal dblatex does not correctly handle underscores in "linkend" attributes. It doesn't escape the underscore with a backslash when outputting the LaTeX file, and this makes pdflatex fail.
Consider the following example: <xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd";> <book> <para>This is a <xref linkend="testgood" />. This is a <xref linkend="testbad" />.</para> <para>Here is the <anchor id="testgood" xreflabel="goodlinkend"/>good linkend.</para> <para>Here is the <anchor id="testbad" xreflabel="bad_linkend"/>bad linkend.</para> </book> This is valid DocBook, and is correctly converted to HTML by xsltproc. When fed to dblatex, it gives the following: Build the listings... XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.2.9-2) =================================================== Build dblatex-report.pdf This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode pdflatex failed dblatex-report_tmp.tex:49: Missing $ inserted. dblatex-report_tmp.tex:49: leading text: ...This is a \hyperlink{testbad}{bad_linkend} dblatex-report_tmp.tex:49: Missing $ inserted. dblatex-report_tmp.tex:49: leading text: ...This is a \hyperlink{testbad}{bad_linkend} A possible reason for transformation failure is invalid DocBook (as reported by xmllint) Removing the underscore in "bad_linkend" fixes the problem. The poor man's workaround is to use <link> instead of <xref>, but this is not very convenient when writing a software reference manual (as I do) with a lot of command names containing underscores. Best, S. Villemot -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dblatex depends on: ii docbook-xml 4.5-5 standard XML documentation system, ii python 2.5.2-1 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-4suite-xml 1.0.2-5 An open-source platform for XML an ii python-apt 0.7.6 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii python-support 0.8.4 automated rebuilding support for P ii texlive 2007.dfsg.1-2 TeX Live: A decent selection of th ii texlive-extra-utils 2007.dfsg.2-3 TeX Live: TeX auxiliary programs ii texlive-lang-cyrillic 2007.dfsg.3-2 TeX Live: Cyrillic ii texlive-latex-extra 2007.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary pack ii texlive-math-extra 2007.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Advanced math typesettin ii texlive-xetex 2007.dfsg.2-3 TeX Live: XeTeX macros ii xsltproc 1.1.24-1 XSLT command line processor Versions of packages dblatex recommends: ii libxml2-utils 2.6.32.dfsg-2 XML utilities Versions of packages dblatex suggests: ii acroread [pdf-viewe 8.1.2.su1-0.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Doc ii docbook 4.5-4 standard SGML representation syste ii evince [pdf-viewer] 2.22.2-1 Document (postscript, pdf) viewer ii ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-2.1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF ii imagemagick 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b2 image manipulation programs ii lmodern 1.010x-5 scalable PostScript and OpenType f pn opensp <none> (no description available) pn transfig <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
