docbook: DocBook 3.1 installation woes...
Subject:
Re: DocBook 3.1 installation woes...
From:
Vladimir G Ivanovic ####@####.####
Date:
10 May 2001 20:15:20 -0000
Message-Id: <200105102012.f4AKCqv15881@banff.parc.xerox.com>
Even though docbook-style-dsssl-1.65-1 is the RPM with the highest
release number, reverting to docbook-style-dsssl-1.59-10 fixed my
problems.
-- Vladimir
"VGI" == Vladimir G Ivanovic <Vladimir> writes:
VGI> I want to use the SGML DTD that's defined in the O'Reilly book "DocBook:
VGI> The Definitive Guide" for two reasons: (1) The book is an existance proof that
VGI> the DocBook 3.1 DTD can produce a nice book design, and (2) I have both
VGI> hardcopy and HTML documentation for that version.
VGI> So, I installed the following RPMs on my RedHat 7.1 Linux system:
VGI> docbook-dtd30-sgml-1.0-10
VGI> docbook-dtd31-sgml-1.0-10
VGI> docbook-style-dsssl-1.65-1
VGI> docbook-utils-0.6-13
VGI> jadetex-3.3-1
VGI> perl-SGMLSpm-1.03ii-4
VGI> sgml-common-0.5-5
VGI> sgml-tools-1.0.9-9
VGI> tetex-1.0.7-15
VGI> tetex-afm-1.0.7-15
VGI> tetex-doc-1.0.7-15
VGI> tetex-dvilj-1.0.7-15
VGI> tetex-dvips-1.0.7-15
VGI> tetex-fonts-1.0.7-15
VGI> tetex-latex-1.0.7-15
VGI> tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-15
VGI> I've run through the installation notes in Chapter 2 of Norman Walsh's
VGI> "The Modular DocBook Stylesheets" (http://nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/doc/),
VGI> and if I set
VGI> SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/etc/sgml/catalog:/usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3/catalog
VGI> I can run without errors
VGI> jade -t rtf -d jtest.dsl jtest.sgm
VGI> and, after updating DOCTYPE in `test.sgm' to "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN",
VGI> nsgmls -sv test.sgm
VGI> But I cannot get
VGI> jade -t rtf -d \
VGI> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.65/print/docbook.dsl \
VGI> test.sgm
VGI> to run. I get lots of errors like
VGI> jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.65/print/../common/dbl1cs.ent:7:33:E: "283" is not a character number in the document character set
VGI> and later on
VGI> jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.65/print/../common/dbl1cs.dsl:358:34:E: general entity "ListofExamples" not defined and no default entity
VGI> What am I missing?
VGI> Thanks!
VGI> -- Vladimir