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

  • From: "John Brugge" <johnbrugge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:05:12 +0000

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
>


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