On 2/20/10, Ulf-D. Ehlert wrote:

It might help if you would post line 67 of gimp.tex (plus some context lines(?), e.g. lines 65-69).

And would you mind telling me how to post any lines of an otherwise temporarily created TeX file that is removed right after failed attempt to create a PDF file? ;)

Also, for an encoding problem you should try to construct a minimal example (e.g. section, title, para) which we can use for testing.

Attached :)

Alexandre

On 2/21/10, Ulf-D. Ehlert wrote:

It might help if you would post line 67 of gimp.tex (plus some context lines(?), e.g. lines 65-69).

And would you mind telling me how to post any lines of an otherwise temporarily created TeX file that is removed right after failed attempt to create a PDF file? ;)

make [-f Makefile.GNU] ... pdf-ru DBLATEXEXTRAFLAGS="--debug"

See dblatex(1): ...
-d, --debug
Debug mode: Keep the temporary directory in which dblatex actually works.

But I think it's no longer necessary, I can reproduce the "T2A" and "\cyr*" errors using your xml example.

OK, I installed texlive-lang-cyrillic and got a bit further. The PassiveTeX way seems to work on a smaller document, so

dblatex -P latex.unicode.use=1 xml/ru/key-reference.xml

actually produces the PDF file.

However I still get an error when building the whole help either way.

The final TeX document is here:

http://gimp.ru/files/help/gimp.tex.bz2

And here is the log from dblatex:

http://gimp.ru/files/help/gimp.log.bz2

Alexandre

On 2/24/10, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

However I still get an error when building the whole help either way.

There are two more issues I can see while building separate small XML files:

1. PDF bookmarks tree is created, but does not contain any text 2. All the "Caution" and "Figure:" captions are in English.

Alexandre

On 2/25/10, Ulf-D. Ehlert wrote:

2. All the "Caution" and "Figure:" captions are in English.

Do you mean the words "Caption" and "Figure"? Then you should check the dblatex file with common Russian translations, e.g. /usr/share/dblatex/xsl/common/ru.xml.

I'd love to. But the person who wrote

for something that actually contains letters of cyrillic alphabet and then wrote actual text as, e.g.

deserves a hard kick in the butt. I'll try not to shout too loud when talking to dblatex crowd.

Alexandre

On 2/25/10, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

I'd love to. But the person who wrote

for something that actually contains letters of cyrillic alphabet and then wrote actual text as, e.g.

deserves a hard kick in the butt. I'll try not to shout too loud when talking to dblatex crowd.

I'll talk to them when I have time, but for now I finally installed XeteX extension it everything just worked like a charm: the PDF build, the PDF bookmarks tree, fonts are vector, text is searchable... Maybe we could use XeTeX by default?

Alexandre

On 2/27/10, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

Maybe we could use XeTeX by default?

Some things could be tuned however. By default the contents is created to the lowest level (6th in some cases), whereas it should stop at x.x.x. And quote marks should be tuned on per language basis. In Russian e..g. we use guillemots (French quote marks). The spacing between number of chapter in its caption in the contents is too close as well.

But apart from those tiny things, as stated above, it just works.

Alexandre