On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 11:21:23PM +1100, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 3 February 2015 at 22:56, Marco Ciampa <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:00:25AM +1000, Lex Trotman wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Any hint?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Perhaps you should ask on the relevant toolchain list, dblatex and FOP
> >> are both separate projects. Whilst people here will answer if they
> >> know, it is not specifically the purpose of this list to answer
> >> toolchain questions. That said, did you search the list archives, I
> >> can't really believe that there has been no previous answer on how to
> >> set fonts.
> >
> > Easy answer, no, but anyway you are right.
> >
> > I asked here because I imagine that, using a2x I am brought to think that
> > somehow this is a asciidoc toolchain problem, so intrinsecly an asciidoc
> > problem.
>
> Its a common misunderstanding, a2x is simply a script that runs the
> toolchains.
If it is so a common misunderstanding then someone should consider that
users have some points here. It is because, since a2x is distributed with
asciidoctor, its output is in a way considered a2x responsibility.
Demanding the onus to the user to study every aspect of the backend it is
a weakness. It is like saying that if XYX Linux distro do not work,
distro devs are not to blame for not choosing the right version of the
lib but just the library devs since the library that is distributed with
is broken.
Sorry for my bad english, I hope I have explained my point clear enough.
> > In this respect I thought to report here an easy fix that I have found.
>
> Thank you.
>
> > Instead to use a2x directly, using a2x to produce docbook and then
> > specify this option to dblatex:
> >
> > so instead to use
> >
> > a2x test.adoc
> >
> > simply using
> >
> > a2x -f docbook test.adoc
> > dblatex -b xetex test.xml
>
> I think you can do it from a2x with:
>
> a2x --dblatex-opts="-b xetex" test.adoc
:-) why you assumed I did not try this?
I really do not know why, but this does _not_ work on my system
(Ubuntu Linux 14.04-64).
If I use a2x I always get an error. (this:
...
building additional files...
checking if compiling is necessary...
the output file doesn't exist
xelatex -interaction=batchmode programma.tex
xelatex failed
programma.tex:93: Environment alltt undefined.
programma.tex:93: leading text: \begin{alltt}
programma.tex:96: \begin{quote} on input line 92 ended by \end{alltt}.
programma.tex:96: leading text: \end{alltt}
Unexpected error occured
Error: xelatex compilation failed
a2x: ERROR: "dblatex" -t pdf -p
"/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl" -s
"/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty" -b xetex -P
latex.output.revhistory=0 -P doc.publisher.show=0 -P doc.collab.show=0 -s
pdf-cover-dblatex.sty -V
"/home/marco/Scrivania/Robotica/corso/programma/programma.xml" returned
non-zero exit status 1
)
Using the 2 phase command instead, same options, works flawlessly.
BTW I observed that using first a2x to transform asciidoc to docbook and
then pdflatex to transform docbook to pdf does not produce the same
output of using a2x all in one command, even with the same latex options.
Do not ask me why it is so. I haven't the slightest idea...
> and you can set a2x options inside the asciidoc source, see
> http://asciidoc.org/a2x.1.html which will bring you back to "a2x
> test.adoc" and you will never forget the dblatex option :)
ah veeery nice! I missed this completely!
But I find this is a good and a bad thing at the same time since I could
be using a different asciidoc processor in the future, as asciidoctor,
and it means mixing asciidoc content data with processore specific
options (like mixing code and data): not a good thing IMHO.
> > resolved all font problems. Even accented chars in section titles!
>
> Understandable, xetex is unicode compliant IIUC.
Then why not setting xetex as default on a2x? Before you write to me, I
already know you answer: because it is not a a2x default but a backend
(dblatex) default, right? :-)
> > Hope will help someone. I think this should be reported on asciicod FAQ
> > page.
>
> Happy to get a PR.
testing continue...
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