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Re: pdflatex errors in doc dir
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:25:07 +0200
- Subject: Re: pdflatex errors in doc dir
- References: <20130628082121 dot GN2378 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Jun 28 10:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Warren,
>
>
> after I upgrade my server from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18, I now get
> an error message when trying to build the PDFs:
>
> xmlto --skip-validation --with-dblatex pdf -o cygwin-ug-net/ /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml
> Build the book set list...
> Build the listings...
> XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.3.4)
> ===================================================
> prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
> prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
> prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
> [...]
> Build cygwin-ug-net.pdf
> pdflatex failed
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \bin.
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \cygwin.
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:359: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:359: leading text: that the root path is \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin}
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:360: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
> cygwin-ug-net.tex:360: leading text: ...} file in \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\etc\fstab}
> [...]
> Unexpected error occured
> Error: pdflatex compilation failed
>
> All the error message lead to the backslash as a character being
> interpreted as a special character suddenly. This wasn't the case
> before and, I believe, you probably don't see this when creating
> the docs under Cygwin.
To be more exact: This affects *only* backslash sequences in the
<filename>...</filename> bracket.
This is ok:
<screen>
\\server\share\...
</screen>
This bombs:
<filename>\\server\share\foo</filename>
> The package containing the pdflatex tool is called
>
> texlive-latex-bin-bin-svn14050.0-20.20130321_r29448.fc18.noarch
>
> Is this a bug in that package, or are we doing something wrong all
> the time and only a newer pdflatex version is more aggressive in
> error handling?
Thanks,
Corinna
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