On Monday 13 August 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > 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
I will look up db2latex, download it, and try it. But of course I would prefer a Context solution if possible. Here is some code from the file titled "index.docbook" in the above mentioned set of files: ------------------ <?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [ <!ENTITY kappname "&krita;"> <!ENTITY package "koffice"> <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE"> <!ENTITY introduction SYSTEM "introduction.docbook"> <!ENTITY tutorial SYSTEM "tutorial.docbook"> <!ENTITY tutorial-starting SYSTEM "tutorial-starting.docbook"> <!ENTITY tutorial-select-layer SYSTEM "tutorial-select-layer.docbook"> <!ENTITY tutorial-quick-starts SYSTEM "tutorial-quick-starts.docbook"> <!ENTITY tutorial-tablet SYSTEM "tutorial-tablet.docbook"> <!ENTITY images SYSTEM "using-images.docbook"> <!ENTITY views SYSTEM "using-views.docbook"> <!ENTITY layers SYSTEM "using-layers.docbook"> <!ENTITY selections SYSTEM "using-selections.docbook"> <!ENTITY filters SYSTEM "using-filters.docbook"> <!ENTITY colorspaces SYSTEM "using-colorspaces.docbook"> <!ENTITY commands SYSTEM "commands.docbook"> <!ENTITY commands-toolbars SYSTEM "commands-toolbars.docbook"> <!ENTITY commands-palettes SYSTEM "commands-palettes.docbook"> <!ENTITY commands-menus SYSTEM "commands-menus.docbook"> <!ENTITY commands-dialogs SYSTEM "commands-dialogs.docbook"> <!ENTITY settings SYSTEM "settings.docbook"> <!ENTITY developers SYSTEM "developers.docbook"> <!ENTITY developers-scripting SYSTEM "developers-scripting.docbook"> <!ENTITY developers-plugins SYSTEM "developers-plugins.docbook"> <!ENTITY faq SYSTEM "faq.docbook"> <!ENTITY credits SYSTEM "credits.docbook"> <!ENTITY installation SYSTEM "installation.docbook"> ]> <book lang="&language;"> <bookinfo> <title>The &krita; Handbook</title> ----------snip-------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- I don't know enough about docbook to determine the validity of any of the above. There is a subdirectory called "common" that contains style files with css suffix but I don't have the foggiest notion of which to use or how to include them into a translation of the document. -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
