Re: [PATCH] [KERNEL-DOC] fix tex error when building pdfdocs

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:38:42 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:

> When building pdfdocs, the db2pdf converter bails out because of an
> latex-reserved token  - '#' - in the intermediary .tex file which ends up in a
> conversion error with the following error message: 
> 
> <log>
> [15.0.32])
> ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 8154.
> <inserted text>
>                 \fi
> <*> kernel-hacking.tex
> </log>
> 
> This is a rather arbitrary fix, so suggest away.

Hi,

I don't have a problem with the change, but I don't get that tex error either.
Here is an extract from the .tex file:


{\def\Element%
{451}\def\ProcessingMode%
{title-sosofo-mode}}\#if\endNode{}\endSeq{}\endLink{}\Seq%
{}\Leader%
{}.\endLeader{}\Link%


> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
> 
> Index: 21-rc6/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
> ===================================================================
> --- 21-rc6.orig/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
> +++ 21-rc6/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
> @@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ static struct block_device_operations op
>    </sect1>
>  
>    <sect1 id="conventions-ifdef">
> -   <title>&num;if</title>
> +   <title>Prepocessor Conditionals</title>
>     
>     <para>
>      It is generally considered cleaner to use macros in header files
> 
> -

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~Randy
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