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

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

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:35:00 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:

> 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.

I'm using:  docbook-utils-0.6.14-79  (SLED 10)

and the corrected :) lines contain an additional '#':

{1}}10.7. \Node%
{\def\Element%
{451}\def\ProcessingMode%
{title-sosofo-mode}}\#if\endNode{}\def\HeadingText{%
10.7. \#if}%
\endHeadPar{}\endSeq{}\Node%
{\def\Element%
{451}}\endNode{}\Node%



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~Randy
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