Tim,
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Tim Jenness wrote:
> Blowing it away and new checkout works. Except now dvi2bitmap is missing
> so it still didn't work. I've added it to thirdparty/glasgow but I'm
> assuming we have access to a CVS repository for this? :-) [not clear
> whether your repository for this needs to be in the Starlink CVS though]
Steve mentioned dvi2bitmap, alongside perlSGML, a while ago. I should
sort this out now.
dvi2bitmap is indeed not in the saturn repository. It's Starlink code,
because I first wrote it when I was writing sgmlkit, but I've since done a
certain amount of work on it in my own time, and it's used a fair amount
by folk who have never heard of Starlink. So in a sense, although it's
Starlink software, it's not _really_ `starlink software', in the sense
of being a part of a large chunk of astronomical code.
I've thought of putting it on sourceforge, but always swithered.
I don't suppose there's any real reason why it can't also go on saturn.
If there ever emerges a reason why it should be moved to sourceforge so
that other folk can work on it, then it could be moved, and shunted to
thirparty/starlink (!) at that point.
And in response to Tim's later message, yes, dvi2bitmap is indeed
useful. I have looked at latex2html to see where to make the change to
using dvi2bitmap -- it would speed that program up a _lot_, by a factor
approaching 10, I believe -- but help-us-and-save-us, latex2html is
horrific (I know Peter's been saying this for years), and I backed off
smartish on the occasion a year or so ago when I did this. I might take
another look.
> Then it seems to work, except for this (seemingly non-fatal) error:
>
> tmp-sgml2docs:I: Pre-processing...
> ./tmp-sgml2docs: line 582: 7683 Aborted $run $JADE -t sgml -iOnly.web $JADEFLAGS -d
> $STYLESHEET/html/slpreprocess.dsl#preprocess.main $usedecl $SGMLSRC >$tempdest
> tmp-sgml2docs:I: (no maths in document)
Weird. I've never seen that as far as I recall, and I haven't tinkered
with that bit of the script for ages. Does this happen consistently?
Norman
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