> On Apr 16, 2018, at 0:00, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 3 manuals distributed with emacs fail to export to po format when using the
>> following command:
>>
>> po4a-gettextize -f texinfo -M utf8 -m name.texi -p name.texi.fr.po
>>
>> gnus.texi
>>
>> Use of uninitialized value $newfilepath in string eq at
>> /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.24/Locale/Po4a/TeX.pm line 961.
>> po4a::tex: Can't find gnus.texi with kpsewhich
>
> I don't understand what this error message means, in terms of the
> Texinfo sources. Can you explain, please? Taken at face value, it
> looks like a bug in TeX.pm, whereby a variable is not initialized.
I just sent the report, my idea is that it's po4a issues but the po4a-devel
list doesn't respond.
Jean-Christophe
>
>> idlwave.texi
>>
>> idlwave.texi:370: (po4a::tex)
>> unmatched end of environment 'html'
>> idlwave.texi:1242: (po4a::tex)
>> unmatched end of environment 'html'
>> idlwave.texi:2964: (po4a::tex)
>> unmatched end of environment 'html'
>> idlwave.texi:3101: (po4a::tex)
>> unmatched end of environment 'html'
>> idlwave.texi:3497: (po4a::tex)
>> unmatched end of environment 'html'
>> idlwave.texi:3559: (po4a::tex)
>> unmatched end of environment 'html'
>> idlwave.texi:4021: (po4a::tex)
>> unmatched end of environment 'html'
>> idlwave.texi:4078: (po4a::tex)
>> unmatched end of environment 'html'
>
> These all seem bogus, because the source looks correct to me. Here's
> the first instance:
>
> @html
> <A NAME="TUTORIAL"></A>
> @end html
>
> I see nothing wrong here; do you?
>
> (Maybe you are using an old version of the manual; I looked in what's
> currently on the emacs-26 branch of the Emacs Git repository.)
>
>> idlwave.texi:4088: (po4a::tex)
>> un-balanced { in 'Whenever an IDL error occurs or a breakpoint is hit, I get'
>
> Nothing wrong here, either:
>
> @enumerate
>
> @item @strong{Whenever an IDL error occurs or a breakpoint is hit, I get
> errors or strange behavior when I try to type anything into some of my
> IDLWAVE buffers.}
>
> The Texinfo manual says it's okay to have multi-line text after @item:
>
> Write the text of the enumerated list in the same way as an itemized
> list: write a line starting with '@item' at the beginning of each item
> in the enumeration. It is ok to have text following the '@item', and
> the text for an item can continue for several paragraphs.
>
> Looks like po4a doesn't support this feature of the Texinfo language?
>
>> org.texi
>>
>> perl just keeps churning data without outputting anything.
>
> Hard to do anything with this, without more diagnostic data.
>
>> A number of other manuals output errors but are properly exported to po:
>
> These looks bogus as well. E.g.:
>
>> cmdargs.texi:726: (po4a::tex)
>> unmatched end of environment 'vtable'
>
> There's a matching "@vtable @env" on line 674.
>
> So I submit these problems are bugs in po4a, and the Emacs manuals are
> OK.
>
> Thanks.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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