Re: Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-09-27 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:47 AM, José Matos wrote: >> The above is just for historical reference. I agree with you solution. :-) > > OK unless there are objections in the next couple days I will do so. Done at 2c6eab54. Scott

Re: Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-09-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:47 AM, José Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 31 July 2013 18:53:00 Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> José or Martin, >> >> Is there a natural reason for AGU and docbook to go together? When I >> google for "AGU docbook", I see mostly LyX links. > > IIRC At the time when Martin include

Re: Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-09-20 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 31 July 2013 18:53:00 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > José or Martin, > > Is there a natural reason for AGU and docbook to go together? When I > google for "AGU docbook", I see mostly LyX links. IIRC At the time when Martin included this AGU was testing/implementing a new format based on d

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-08-16 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > We can add some note comment on the top of the document. I went with this suggestion for now because it is seems the least controversial. I would prefer to have the document in the attic (for the correct reason now, I think). Here is the part

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-08-14 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> We can set the default format to LyXHTML and we can put a note at the >> top along the lines of "exporting to PDF of this document is currently >> not working". > > Actually I'm not against moving this to attic, but th

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-08-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
Scott Kostyshak wrote: > We can set the default format to LyXHTML and we can put a note at the > top along the lines of "exporting to PDF of this document is currently > not working". Actually I'm not against moving this to attic, but the proper reason is obsoleteness, not the fact that it creates

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-08-14 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> >> When I try to export AGU_article to a pdf (I appear to have the >> > >> > You mean that AGU_article which is meant to be for docbook stall with pdf? >> >> Yes, on my system and on Kornel's. jadetex (Open Jade) give

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-08-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >> When I try to export AGU_article to a pdf (I appear to have the > > > > You mean that AGU_article which is meant to be for docbook stall with pdf? > > Yes, on my system and on Kornel's. jadetex (Open Jade) gives errors > (listed in this thread) and then stalls. And wha

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-08-14 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> When I try to export AGU_article to a pdf (I appear to have the > > You mean that AGU_article which is meant to be for docbook stall with pdf? Yes, on my system and on Kornel's. jadetex (Open Jade) gives errors (list

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-08-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
Scott Kostyshak wrote: > When I try to export AGU_article to a pdf (I appear to have the You mean that AGU_article which is meant to be for docbook stall with pdf? Pavel

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-08-14 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:33 AM, José Matos wrote: >>> On Friday 17 May 2013 23:46:18 Scott Kostyshak wrote: Hi José, here are some more errors for you to chase I g

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-07-31 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:33 AM, José Matos wrote: >> On Friday 17 May 2013 23:46:18 Scott Kostyshak wrote: >>> Hi José, here are some more errors for you to chase >>> >>> I get these when trying to export AGU_article.lyx to ps2pdf. >>> >>

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-07-05 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:33 AM, José Matos wrote: > On Friday 17 May 2013 23:46:18 Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> Hi José, here are some more errors for you to chase >> >> I get these when trying to export AGU_article.lyx to ps2pdf. >> >> Also note that another problem is that LyX hangs for me when t

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-05-20 Thread José Matos
On Friday 17 May 2013 23:46:18 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Hi José, here are some more errors for you to chase > > I get these when trying to export AGU_article.lyx to ps2pdf. > > Also note that another problem is that LyX hangs for me when trying to > export AGU_article.lyx to ps2pdf. It would be

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-05-17 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:31 PM, José Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 10 April 2013 22:05:09 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > The patch attached fixes the first problem you describe the "DUMMY" > references (pun intended). :-D > > I will try to chase and fix the others. Hi José, here are some more errors fo

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/13/2013 02:11 PM, José Matos wrote: On Friday 12 April 2013 18:00:09 Pavel Sanda wrote: José Matos wrote: The patch attached fixes the first problem you describe the "DUMMY" references (pun intended). :-D Dunno how much related but I remember docbook&dummy problem reported in bug track

Re: Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
José Matos wrote: > The question between docbook 4 (mostly 4.5) and docbook 5 is the same that we > are having in another thread regarding python. I must admit that I'm so confused, that I don't even know what version do we support now(4?). And what is the relation between SGML and XML version o

Re: Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-13 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:32 PM, José Matos wrote: > The question between docbook 4 (mostly 4.5) and docbook 5 is the same that we > are having in another thread regarding python. Interesting coincidence. I guess major releases are a good time to talk about changing version support. > docbook 4

Re: Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-13 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 13 April 2013 14:24:52 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > There was someone interested in adding support for DocBook 5: > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8444 > > Let me know if there's anything I can do to test. > > Scott The question between docbook 4 (mostly 4.5) and docbook 5 is the same th

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-13 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:16 PM, José Matos wrote: > On Friday 12 April 2013 23:30:16 Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> Your patch does help. Here is the output I get now from db2pdf (exit code is >> 8): >> > > Yes, I get the same. I think that the reasonable course of action is to > update the docbook

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-13 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:32 PM, José Matos wrote: > On Friday 12 April 2013 23:31:55 Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> >> OK, I will apply the patch then unless someone disagrees. José cannot >> test because he does not use sgmltools. >> >> Scott > > You can test easily if you create a new document from

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-13 Thread José Matos
On Friday 12 April 2013 23:30:16 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Your patch does help. Here is the output I get now from db2pdf (exit code is > 8): > Yes, I get the same. I think that the reasonable course of action is to update the docbook support for 4.5 (released in 2006). I will look in to this b

Re: Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-13 Thread José Matos
On Friday 12 April 2013 18:00:09 Pavel Sanda wrote: > José Matos wrote: > > The patch attached fixes the first problem you describe the "DUMMY" > > references (pun intended). :-D > > Dunno how much related but I remember docbook&dummy problem reported in bug > tracker. > Pavel I think that you

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-13 Thread José Matos
On Friday 12 April 2013 23:31:55 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > OK, I will apply the patch then unless someone disagrees. José cannot > test because he does not use sgmltools. > > Scott You can test easily if you create a new document from templates. There is a simple docbook template that will wor

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 04/10/2013 10:01 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:20 AM, José Matos wrote: >>> >>> The sgmltools (that I don't have installed) will most probably use the >>> latex >>> way so I agree with you that the ps backend i

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:31 PM, José Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 10 April 2013 22:05:09 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I have different errors since I only have docbook 4.5 installed. > > The patch attached fixes the first problem you describe the "DUMMY" > references (pun intended). :-D > > I will tr

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
José Matos wrote: > The patch attached fixes the first problem you describe the "DUMMY" > references (pun intended). :-D Dunno how much related but I remember docbook&dummy problem reported in bug tracker. Pavel

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/10/2013 10:01 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:20 AM, José Matos wrote: The sgmltools (that I don't have installed) will most probably use the latex way so I agree with you that the ps backend is the way to go (even if in the end it is the same transformation path). O

Re: Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-12 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 10 April 2013 22:05:09 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I tried to test docbook_article with db2pdf and I get errors. Here are a few: > > openjade:/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.n10355/lyx_tmpbuf2/docbook_article.sgml:113:68:E: > element "DUMMY" undefined > openjade:/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.n10355/lyx_tmpbuf2/docboo

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-10 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:20 AM, José Matos wrote: > On Tuesday 02 April 2013 16:42:09 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > FWIW I am using the db2xxx tools (db2dvi db2html db2pdf db2ps db2rtf) from > the docbook-utils project http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/ Ah, I had not seen that. I just install

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-10 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:20 AM, José Matos wrote: > The sgmltools (that I don't have installed) will most probably use the latex > way so I agree with you that the ps backend is the way to go (even if in the > end it is the same transformation path). OK, it sounds like it makes sense to add supp

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-08 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 02 April 2013 16:42:09 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Currently the converter chain for DocBook -> PDF (ps2pdf) is the following: > > docbook -> DVI > DVI -> Postscript > Postscript -> PDF (ps2pdf) > > The converter for docbook -> DVI is: sgmltools -b dvi $$i > > sgmltools has a backe

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-02 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > The docbook stuff is pretty old, and it may be that sgmltools didn't have > the ps backend last time anyone looked at this. I don't know. Perhaps José > will tell us. OK, I'll wait to see what José says. > But yes: If we want to support the

Re: DocBook converters (no knowledge of DocBook required)

2013-04-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/02/2013 04:42 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: Currently the converter chain for DocBook -> PDF (ps2pdf) is the following: docbook -> DVI DVI -> Postscript Postscript -> PDF (ps2pdf) The converter for docbook -> DVI is: sgmltools -b dvi $$i sgmltools has a backend for postscript also.