I'm sorry I should have first asked why you are using the legacy AsciiDoc Python implementation?
The current most used AsciiDoc processor is Asciidoctor www.asciidoctor.org. If you are making new documents you should use that as it is also the starting point of the AsciiDoc standardisation effort which is starting now to allow multiple compatible implementations to exist and avoid the markdown shambles. Asciidoctor can generate more output formats without a toolchain, or can generate docbook so that the same toolchain can be used to keep an existing presentation. If you are processing legacy documents from an existing project, some will process with Asciidoctor's compatibility mode. Only existing documents that rely on features not supported by Asciidoctor or on extensions that only exist for this implementation should use this processor. In case thats why you need it, your install seems mixed up, I have lost track of changes to install lately, but it seems to be mixing /etc/local/asciidoc and /etc/local/asciidoc9.0.5 I would suggest removing it and installing the new release 9.1.0 from last month, see at top of https://asciidoc.org/index.html. Cheers Lex On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 05:37, 'Zam' via asciidoc <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Lex, > > Thank you very much for yet another quick response! > > You're right about me judging erroneously what a2x is --- and isn't. With > hindsight, I would have said, instead: "It seems this is a quite > common---and, not strangely, old---problem relating to some users' > misconceptions about a2x." > > I have now dutifully installed xsltproc, the DocBook XSL Stylesheets, > dblatex, and w3m, per https://asciidoc.org/a2x.1.html#X1, as you seem to have > suggested. This, however, can only take me so far, i.e., beyond xmllint and > the relevant XML DTDs. What follows is the output I'm now getting, beyond the > usual first 18 lines of code: > > a2x: executing: "dblatex" -t pdf -p > "/usr/local/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl" -s > "/usr/local/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty" -V > "/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml" > > Build the book set list... > xsltproc -o doclist.txt --xinclude --xincludestyle doclist.xsl > /home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml > Build the listings... > xsltproc -o listings.xml --xinclude --xincludestyle --param current.dir > '/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc' > /usr/share/dblatex/xsl/common/mklistings.xsl > /home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml > xsltproc -o article.rtex --xinclude --xincludestyle --param current.dir > '/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc' --param listings.xml > '/tmp/tmpYrmfo_/listings.xml' /tmp/tmpYrmfo_/custom.xsl > /home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml > XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.3.10) > =================================================== > Image 'dblatex' not found > Image 'images/smallnew.png' not found > Image 'images/tiger.png' not found > Build article.pdf > built-in module pdftex registered > no support found for ifthen > no support found for ifxetex > no support found for fontspec > no support found for xltxtra > no support found for fontenc > no support found for inputenc > no support found for fancybox > built-in module makeidx registered > no support found for asciidoc-dblatex > built-in module bibtopic registered > building additional files... > checking if compiling is necessary... > the output file doesn't exist > pdflatex -interaction=batchmode article.tex > pdflatex failed > /usr/local/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty: File `docbook.sty' not > found. > /usr/local/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty:8: Emergency stop. > /usr/local/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty:8: leading text: ^^M > Unexpected error occured > Error: pdflatex compilation failed > > a2x: ERROR: "dblatex" -t pdf -p > "/usr/local/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl" -s > "/usr/local/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty" -V > "/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml" returned non-zero exit > status 1 > > It seems my main problem now is pdflatex cannot find the docbook.sty file in > question. If that's right, could you please point me to the place where I can > get it? > > It would be nice, too, if you could explain to me what's with all the Image > [...] not found and the no support found for... messages, since (1) such > images do exist in the asciidoc-9.0.5/images directory, and (2) I have > TexLive's latest version installed and have thus far used it successfully. > > Sorry for the rather general amateurish character of my inquiry. Please, feel > free to answer my questions whenever you have the time to do so. > > Cheers, > > Zam > > > El lunes, 1 de marzo de 2021 a la(s) 00:19:04 UTC-5, Lex Trotman escribió: >> >> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 14:26, 'Zam' via asciidoc >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hello Lex, >> > Thank you for the (very) quick response! >> > Here is the output of adding -v -v to my original command: >> > >> > a2x: args: ['-v', '-v', '--format=pdf', 'doc/article.txt'] >> > a2x: resource files: [] >> > a2x: resource directories: ['/usr/local/etc/asciidoc/images', >> > '/usr/local/etc/asciidoc/stylesheets'] >> > a2x: executing: "/usr/local/bin/asciidoc.py" --backend docbook -a >> > "a2x-format=pdf" --verbose --out-file >> > "/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml" >> > "/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.txt" >> > >> > asciidoc: reading: /usr/local/etc/asciidoc/asciidoc.conf >> > asciidoc: reading: /home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/asciidoc.conf >> > asciidoc: reading: /home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.txt >> > asciidoc: reading: /usr/local/etc/asciidoc/docbook45.conf >> > asciidoc: reading: /usr/local/etc/asciidoc/filters/code/code-filter.conf >> > asciidoc: reading: /usr/local/etc/asciidoc/filters/music/music-filter.conf >> > asciidoc: reading: >> > /usr/local/etc/asciidoc/filters/source/source-highlight-filter.conf >> > asciidoc: reading: >> > /usr/local/etc/asciidoc/filters/graphviz/graphviz-filter.conf >> > asciidoc: reading: /usr/local/etc/asciidoc/filters/latex/latex-filter.conf >> > asciidoc: reading: /usr/local/etc/asciidoc/lang-en.conf >> > asciidoc: reading: /home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/asciidoc.conf >> > asciidoc: writing: /home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml >> > >> > a2x: executing: "xmllint" --nonet --noout --valid >> > "/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml" >> > >> > /bin/sh: 1: xmllint: not found >> >> This means xmllint isn't installed which you have fixed. >> >> > >> > a2x: ERROR: "xmllint" --nonet --noout --valid >> > "/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml" returned non-zero >> > exit status 127 >> > >> > And here is the output of that very same command, i.e., a2x -v -v >> > --format=pdf doc/article.txt, once I installed xmllint: >> > >> > [The first 18 lines of code are identical] >> > >> > a2x: executing: "xmllint" --nonet --noout --valid >> > "/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml" >> > >> > I/O error : Attempt to load network entity >> > http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd >> > /home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml:2: warning: failed to >> > load external entity >> > "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"; >> > D DocBook XML V4.5//EN" >> > "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"; >> > ^ >> > /home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml:6: validity error : >> > Validation failed: no DTD found ! >> > <article lang="en"> >> > ^ >> >> This means you don't have the relevant XML dtds installed, but you can >> run a2x with --no-xmllint to skip it, xmllint is just a sanity check, >> its not required. >> >> >> > >> > a2x: ERROR: "xmllint" --nonet --noout --valid >> > "/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml" returned non-zero >> > exit status 4 >> > >> > I then found this old thread of yours and others, >> > https://groups.google.com/g/asciidoc/c/FC-eOwU8rYg, on exactly the same >> > non-zero exit status 4 and tried out its last two solutions --- alas, to >> > no avail. Whereas the first solution, i.e., that of [email protected], >> > gave me the output: >> > >> > [Same first 18 lines of code] >> >> I'm not sure which solution you used, but clearly you got past xmllint >> >> > >> > a2x: executing: "dblatex" -t pdf -p >> > "/usr/local/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl" -s >> > "/usr/local/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty" -V >> > "/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml" >> > >> > /bin/sh: 1: dblatex: not found >> >> You need relevant toolchains installed to process the docbook asciidoc >> produces, see https://asciidoc.org/a2x.1.html#X1 linked from the top >> of the a2x page. a2x is simply a script to simplify some of the steps >> to do that, it doesn't include the toolchains. >> >> > >> > a2x: ERROR: "dblatex" -t pdf -p >> > "/usr/local/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl" -s >> > "/usr/local/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty" -V >> > "/home/zam/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml" returned non-zero >> > exit status 127 >> > >> > the second one, i.e., that of [email protected], threw me once more the >> > above-mentioned non-zero exit status 4 output. >> > >> > It seems this is a quite common---and, strangely, old---problem relating >> > to a2x. I don't know, however, what I'm supposed to now. >> >> Its quite common for people to not read the part about needing >> toolchains to process the docbook into PDF. AsciiDoc itself only >> produces docbook or HTML itself. As linked above its addressed in the >> a2x page, and also discussed in the AsciiDoc user guide >> https://asciidoc.org/userguide.html#_docbook. >> >> Cheers >> Lex >> >> > >> > Would very much appreciate your thoughts on this, Lex. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > Zam >> > >> > El domingo, 28 de febrero de 2021 a la(s) 20:03:53 UTC-5, Lex Trotman >> > escribió: >> >> >> >> try adding -v -v yes thats twice, to the a2x command to get expanded >> >> error messages. >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Lex >> >> >> >> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 10:53, 'Zam' via asciidoc >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Hello there, >> >> > >> >> > I have just installed AsciiDoc 9.0.5 >> >> > (https://github.com/asciidoc-py/asciidoc-py/releases) on my Linux >> >> > machine and have successfully tested the installation (as per >> >> > https://asciidoc.org/INSTALL.html). >> >> > >> >> > Unfortunately, though, I'm unable to run a2x --format=pdf >> >> > doc/article.txt on the sample article.txt file included in the >> >> > distribution root directory. This is the error message I keep getting >> >> > again and again: >> >> > >> >> > a2x: ERROR: "xmllint" --nonet --noout --valid >> >> > "/home/user/Downloads/asciidoc-9.0.5/doc/article.xml" returned non-zero >> >> > exit status 127 >> >> > >> >> > Any ideas of what the problem might be? >> >> > >> >> > Thank you very much in advance. >> >> > >> >> > Cheers, >> >> > >> >> > Zam >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> > Groups "asciidoc" group. >> >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> >> > an email to [email protected]. >> >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/asciidoc/e0aa14f5-47b4-44de-816e-195fd79bcd5bn%40googlegroups.com. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "asciidoc" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/asciidoc/299848fb-5d26-4684-8ea3-69668841f078n%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/asciidoc/7e0b7c74-f7e8-4903-a28c-547f9cb2c444n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. 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