It runs out of memory, but it might be lack of JAI. I will try again.

Again, I'm not too worried. My priority is producing a usable csound 5
manual, and I don't really care whether it's PDF or HTML or whatever.

Original Message:
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From: steven yi stevenyi@csounds.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:40:50 -0800
To: csound-dev@eartha.mills.edu
Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:5670] Re: Docbook-XML Csound Manual


Regarding FOP, does it really flop or just produce a lot of error 
messages?  If it's just error messages and the pdf file is produced, 
everything is fine.  There's been changes to the xml-fo spec that FOP 
doesn't support and reports as an error but keeps going on anyways.  For 
me, I get a lot of error messages saying things about 
"relative-baseline". On the mailing lists I've seen, most people largely 
ignore those messages and the output comes out alright. 

Also, if you don't have JAI installed, fop my flop if it gets to the 
images and can't load the JAI imaging libraries to process them.

If neither are the issue, then could you send me the error messages you 
are receiving?

There are alternatives, but I haven't tried them, and the one I tried 
which is a popular alternative--passivetex--didn't work out for me at 
the time.

In general, for these types of things, I've been consulting this book:

http://www.sagehill.net/book-description.html

quite a bit; it's what helped me most when I was learning docbook-xml 
for use with blue's manual, figuring out what tools to use and how to 
customize the stylesheets.

steven

Michael Gogins wrote:

> Further update, fop flops for me. Even with 784 megs allocated it goes 
> nowhere.
> Is there an alternative?
>
> If there isn't I'd probably be willing to forgo the pdf for the html 
> just to say on the same branch re docs.


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