On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, John R. Culleton wrote: > I am trying to run a bunch of docbook files related to Krita. The > convention in these files seems to be to prefix subordinate file > names with an & character.
I do not understand what you mean by this. Can you post a sample text? > If I run e.g, > texexec index.docbook > it blows up on the first such ampersand. I can of course edit all the > files to replace & with \& but I wonder if there is a better > strategy? AFAIU XML, having a lone & in the file is not valid. You need to have & if you want ampersand. Any other entity (&something;) should be appropriately defined by some style file. > I also tried the various "docbook2xxx" style utilities but they all > failed to produce meaningful results. Is it a valid xml file? Is it a valid docbook file? Do the utilities work with simple sample files. > All I want to do is read the #$% files! Did you try db2latex? It comes with db2context which handles a large subset of docbook specifications. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
