Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem with tables,jadetex and Modular DSSSL Stylesheets >= 1.54

["Kenneth J. Hughes" <kjh@ald.net>]

Ian, your problem appears similar to the one I posted on 10/2/2000
with the subject "DOCBOOK-APPS: footnotes in tables fail for -ttex
only", appended below for ease of reference.  There I describe how
adding a footnote to a cell caused a similar failure using an
example from DocBook: The Definitive Guide.

In my case, though, "Changing the \DisplayGroup%... \endDisplayGroup{}
to \Par% ... \endPar{}" doesn't help.

Have you gotten any suggestions?  I haven't heard anything back
regarding my situation.

Suggestions, anyone?  Thanks for any advice.

Cheers,

Kenneth J. Hughes

At 11:39 AM 10/3/2000 +0100, Ian Castle wrote:
>Since version 1.54 and greater of the modular stylesheets, the tex
>backend has been emitting "\DisplayGroup% .... \endDisplayGroup{}"
>around table entries. In 1.53 and earlier it emitted "\Par% ...
>\endPar{}" in similar situations.
>
>If you have more than one paragraph inside an entry: e.g.
>
><ENTRY><PARA>Entry 2.1</PARA><PARA>Entry 2.2</PARA></ENTRY>
>
>This generates an error when using pdfjadetex to process this file:
>
>         "! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup.
>         <recently read> \egroup
>
>         l.817 {1}}
>                   Entry
>2.2\endPar{}\endNode{}\endDisplayGroup{}\endTableCell{}%
>         I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be
>         spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and
>         you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases
>         the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the
>         deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'.
>
>         ! Missing \endgroup inserted...."
>
> >From then on it goes horribly wrong.
>
>
>Changing the \DisplayGroup%... \endDisplayGroup{} to \Par% ... \endPar{}
>or removing the extra node for the second paragraph will prevent the
>errors from occuring.
>
>I've tried various versions of tetex, jadetex, jade/openjade without any
>joy.
>
>To get back to a baseline I'm using the versions of openjade, tetex,
>jadetex, docbook which come with RedHat 7.
>
>Version 1.53 of the stylesheets doesn't have this problem (doesn't use
>DisplayGroup) version 1.54 up to version 1.57 do.
>
>I'm not a DSSSL or TeX expert and am not sure how to progress.. is the
>problem with the stylesheets, the backend or with the defintion of the
>DisplayGroup macro - or am I just doing something wrong?
>
>Here is a reasonably simple table which demonstrates the problem:
>
><!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN" [
>]>
><BOOK>
><CHAPTER><TITLE>The Title</TITLE>
><PARA>A Paragraph</PARA>
><SECT1><TITLE>Section Title</TITLE>
><PARA>Paragraph</PARA>
><TABLE ID=TABLE1 FRAME=topbot><TITLE>TABLE 1</TITLE>
><TGROUP COLS=2 ALIGN=LEFT COLSEP=0 ROWSEP=0>
><COLSPEC COLNAME=c1 COLWIDTH="1*">
><COLSPEC COLNAME=c2 COLWIDTH="3*">
><THEAD>
><ROW ROWSEP=1>
>         <ENTRY><PARA>Heading 1</PARA></ENTRY>
>         <ENTRY><PARA>Heading 2</PARA></ENTRY>
></ROW>
></THEAD>
><TBODY>
><ROW>
><ENTRY><PARA>Entry 1</PARA></ENTRY>
><ENTRY><PARA>Entry 2.1</PARA><PARA>Entry 2.2</PARA></ENTRY>
></ROW>
></TBODY>
></TGROUP>
></TABLE>
></SECT1>
></CHAPTER>
></BOOK>
>
>
>Thanks in advance for any help/clues.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Ian.

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>Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 23:57:41 -0400
>From: "Kenneth J. Hughes" <kjh@ald.net>
>Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: footnotes in tables fail for -ttex only
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>Our DocBook source is going fine through to HTML and RTF, but
>the process blows up for PDF & PS output. We've identified
>footnotes in entries within a table as the culprit. (Take
>those out and the document sails through for all output forms.)
>We're using OpenJade 1.3.
>In "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" on the reference page for
><footnoteref> is a table whose entries contain footnotes. This
>example exhibits the same problem. I repeat it here as a complete
>document for convenience:
><!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1//EN">
><book>
><chapter>
><title>Are footnotes broken within tables?</title>
><informaltable>
><tgroup cols="2">
><tbody>
><row>
><entry>foo<footnote id="fnrex1a"><para>A meaningless
>word</para></footnote></entry>
><entry>3<footnote id="fnrex1b"><para>A meaningless
>number</para></footnote></entry>
></row>
><row>
><entry>bar<footnoteref linkend="fnrex1a"/></entry>
><entry>5<footnoteref linkend="fnrex1b"/></entry>
></row>
></tbody>
></tgroup>
></informaltable>
></chapter>
></book>
>Here are the log error hilites for pdfjadetex -- jadetex is similar:
>This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14d (MiKTeX 1.20e) (preloaded 
>format=pdfjadetex 2000.8.10) 2 OCT 2000 22:57
>**&pdfjadetex tablefoot.tex
>(tablefoot.tex{pdftex.cfg}
>JadeTeX 1999/06/29: 2.7
>[...]
>(C:\apps\texmf\tex\latex\psnfss\t1phv.fd
>File: t1phv.fd 1998/07/06 Fontinst v1.800 font definitions for T1/phv.
>) [1.0.57{pdftex.map}]
>LaTeX Font Info: Font shape `T1/phv/b/it' in size <17.28> not available
>(Font) Font shape `T1/phv/b/sl' tried instead on input line 397.
>! Missing \endgroup inserted.
><inserted text>
>\endgroup
>l.587 }
>%
>[...]
>I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.
>(See the <inserted text> above.)
>With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you
>really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then
>my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.
>----
>Neither pdftex nor tex really recover from here; a slew of additional
>errors fill the log. I've only recently started reading The TeXBook
>and have not yet gotten good at diagnosing blowups.
>Any ideas? Thank you for your consideration.
>Cheers,
>Kenneth J. Hughes
>