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

[Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:48:51PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 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%
>
<snip>

Actually this is the TOC-piece of .tex code around line 1622. The offending line
is way down (ca. 8152) at the actual chapter heading and it looks like this:

{\def\Element%
{0:451}\def\ProcessingMode%
{title-sosofo-mode}}\#if\endNode{}\def\HeadingText{%
10.7. \if}%
\endHeadPar{}\endSeq{}\Node%

and I think it is the fourth line that causes the problem for the # sign is
stripped and the title is converted to a tex conditional - \if - which isn't
terminated, but I'm not so sure. The thing is, the docbook2tex converts the
.tmpl file to .tex file ok but db2pdf chokes. What docbook-utils are you using?
Mine are version 0.6.14-1 of debian unstable.

By the way, were you going to send me some kernel-doc todo's...?