Hi All,

I did some preliminary tests with fop-0.95 and the blue manual (as it
is a smaller manual than the csound manual).  I also got errors there,
so first thing I did was update my docbook DTD's and stylesheets to
docbook 4.5 and 1.73.2 of the XSL stylesheets.  After that I still had
problems, so what I ended up doing was doing the two step process
manually.  First I converted the XML into an .fo file (XML-FO), then
tried to apply fop to the .fo file to produce a PDF.  By doing it in
two stages, I found that the error messages from fop when working with
the .fo were a little more useful, as it gave the line and column
indexes for where errors occurred. As it turned out, I had some
invalid docbook that fop 0.20.5 was allowing to process but 0.95 does
not.  I would recommend taking this two step process to try to find
out what's going on with the Csound manual; most likely there is also
some bad docbook formatting that 0.20.5 would allow but which 0.95
will not.

To convert to FO, type:

xsltproc --nonet -o output.fo docbook-xsl-1.73.2/fo/docbook.xsl manual.xml

then for fop, use:

fop.sh -fo output.fo -pdf out.pdf

with fop, errors should have things like (1324,3542), which is saying
the error was on line 1324, column 3542.  I had to sort of go to the
location then look around to see where in the manual I was, looked for
a few words, grepped on the commandline for those words to see what
file that came from, then look to see if I could find problems.  Some
were interesting like needing to add empty <para> tags within a
glossary entry as it needed to have something there, while another
error I found in the blue manual was a table designating 2 columns for
a header when there were really 3 columns.

I think going through this process, we should be able to get the
csound manual building PDF with FOP 0.95.

Thanks,
steven

p.s. - I'm currently finding in the blue pdf manual and 0.95 that
images are scaled much larger than they did in 0.20.5, so am
investigating that now.

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