| Title: | Online Bookbuilding |
| Notice: | This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3. |
| Moderator: | VAXUUM::UTT |
| Created: | Fri Aug 12 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jul 15 1991 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 440 |
| Total number of notes: | 2134 |
I am hoping that one of the TEX experts reads this Conference, because
I have a sneaking suspicion that that sort of knowledge could be useful
for my problem !
I have this *very* large (60 .sdml files) book which is compiling
through, creating the TEX files, Contents, Index, including all the
files and figures it needs and then it gets a VOILA ERROR...
I am using VMS V5.1, DOCUMENT V1.1 with the command line :-
document/contents/index/cond=book MSTH_V31_PROFILE online.reference bookreader
VOILA ERROR--The following symbols are undefined:
pgid = 109, offset = 81044, symbol = '_DECW_HEADFN_DDAG_1_17'
%DVC-E-OUTPUTFAIL, error writing to output file
-DVC-I-INPUTFILE, input file is:
$28$DUA61:[ALFORD.MSTH]MSTH_V31_PROFILE.DVI_BOOKREADER;
-DVC-I-ONPAGE, on page [4] <CR><LF>
%DVC-E-BOOKABORT, aborting run -- book not created
The symbol '_DECW_HEADFN_DDAG_1_17' is created by DOCUMENT as the
reference to a <FOOTNOTE>
The footnote is embedded in a nested <LIST>
<LIST>(UNNUMBERED)
<LE>....
<LE>....
<LE>....
<LIST>(UNNUMBERED)
<LE>....
<LE>Phase Review Process<footnote>(ddag\Be aware that it should be replaced
by the Business Software Project Methodology Reference Manual Q2/Q3
FY90)
<ENDLIST>
<LE>....
<LE>....
<ENDLIST>
This footnote works perfectly well for all but BOOKREADER output formats.
Is there a quirk with the online format that can't cope with a <FOOTNOTE>
inside a nested <LIST> ?
As far as I can tell, the reference to the footnote is being created, but
the footnote itself is not.
I can provide both the .SDML and the .TEX file for examination, both of
which are far too long to post here.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 247.1 | should be in header | VAXUUM::UTT | Wed Jan 03 1990 17:00 | 21 | |
Would you send me the .SDML file? (*NOT* all 60 .SDML files -- pare it
down to something short (<100 lines, preferably) that reproduces the
problem.)
No one has previously reported problems with footnotes in lists and I
can't think of any reason off the top of my head why there should be
any. The undefined symbol message actually indicates that the footnote
is in a <headn> tag, not in text, and that it's the first footnote in a
<headn> tag (could also be <chapter>, <appendix>, or <title>), and that
is uses (obviously) a double dagger. Do you have a footnote that
matches this description? If so, make sure that it is coded properly:
<headn>(Header text<footref>(ddag)\sym)
<footnote_text>(ddag\footnote text.)
But you never know with footnotes...sigh, so send me a file if none
of the above helps.
Thanks,
Mary
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| 247.2 | time to upgrade? | VAXUUM::UTT | Wed Jan 03 1990 17:07 | 8 | |
I just noticed that you are using DOCUMENT 1.1 (what version of the
online tools?). Your best course of action might be to upgrade to
DOCUMENT 1.2 and the latest online tools. (See note 244 for info
about the about-to-be-released Writer's Toolkit.) Even if this turns
out to be a bug in the current tools, I would not be able to give you
a fix for the baselevel you are running.
Mary
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| 247.3 | It works now ! | CHEST::ALFORD | Ice to see you..... | Mon Jan 08 1990 07:44 | 27 |
Mary,
your suggestion proved to be the start of the solution, thanks.
There was a <head4><text<footref>(ddag)\ref_sym) in that segment of
text.
The combination was :-
<head4>(<footref>(ddag)\)
.
<le><footnote>(ddag\)
The problem was cured by putting in a <footnote_text> for the first
<footref>(ddag) and changing the <le><footnote> to a DAG version and
the problem went away.
<footnote_text>(ddag\)
<head4>(<footref>(ddag)\)
.
<le><footnote>(dag\)
Why the problem occured in the first place, I don't know, but I think a
general solution with footnote problems would be to humour them :-)
Jane.
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