[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: How to diagnose file2brl failure

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:53:52 -0500

Thanks. I'll step through do_newpage in transcriber.c with gdb . 

John

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:05:12PM +0000, John  Brugge wrote:
> By doing a binary reduction on the config files, it appears that there is
> one line in our semantic action file that is tripping things up:
> 
> newpage level1
> 
> If I remove that one line from bookshare-dtbook-refreshable.sem, then I
> get a full conversion of the source.
> 
> John
> 
> On 8/22/13 3:03 PM, "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >John,
> >
> >I've been looking at the code with gdb. The problem seems to be in
> >transcribe_paragraph , but don't thak that soo seriouly.
> >
> >I notice that bookshare-refreshable.cfg contains a reference to edit
> >table.ctb . That file no longer exists.
> >
> >I hope we can find this bug soon. The fix is probably simple. The hard
> >part is finding it.
> >
> >John
> >
> >On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 07:17:35PM +0000, John  Brugge wrote:
> >> John,
> >> 
> >> Yes, I get the entire document when I give it no config file on the
> >> command line.
> >> 
> >> There were initially a couple of warning lines about a setting for
> >> 'interline' and the style 'trnote' not being recognized (these are the
> >> configuration files we have been using with liblouisxml), so I removed
> >> them to at least avoid the warning.
> >> 
> >> I will try some experiments with reducing the config file to try to
> >> isolate what may be tripping things up. Any other clues you have are
> >> appreciated.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> John
> >> 
> >> On 8/22/13 10:32 AM, "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>wrote:
> >> 
> >> >When I run the xml file with the command
> >> >
> >> >file2brl Little_Brother-prepared.xml test.brl
> >> >
> >> >I get the entire document. I assume you have trried this. When I use
> >>the
> >> >bokshare-refreshable.cfg configuration fille I get only four lines. I
> >>am
> >> >not sure what the problem is now, so I'll get back to you.
> >> >
> >> >John
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 02:25:00PM +0000, John  Brugge wrote:
> >> >> We are working on getting liblouisutdml 2.4.0 installed on our Linux
> >> >>servers, and finding that we're getting just some minimal, truncated
> >> >>output from DAISY input. I cannot reproduce the behavior on my OS X
> >> >>installation, so am looking for what options we have for diagnosing
> >>what
> >> >>is going on. There is no error output to stdout or stderr, and the
> >>exit
> >> >>code of file2brl is zero.
> >> >> 
> >> >> I've attached a zip of the files I've used to run this on the command
> >> >>line, as well as the output we get. I have tried it with a handful of
> >> >>other DAISY input files and gotten similar results.
> >> >> 
> >> >> This is running on Ubuntu 12.0.4.1 LTS, liblouisutdml 2.4.0, liblouis
> >> >>2.5.3.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Thanks for any pointers,
> >> >> John Brugge
> >> >> Bookshare.org
> >> >> 
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >-- 
> >> >John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> >> >Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> >> >http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> >> >Madison, Wisconsin USA
> >> >Developing software for people with disabilities
> >> >
> >> >For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> >> >project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> >> >
> >> 
> >> 
> >> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> >> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> >
> >-- 
> >John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> >Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> >http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> >Madison, Wisconsin USA
> >Developing software for people with disabilities
> >
> >For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> >project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> >
> 
> 
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com

-- 
John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities

For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com

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