[Gimp-docs] help in interpreting latex error

[Roman Joost]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:53:11PM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> >From time to time I used to create the pdf versions of the english and
> italian manuals because this operation easily catch some errors not easy to find
> with other methods.
> 
> Sometime, since I'm not a LaTex expert, I find errors like this that stops
> (pause) the compilation that I really do not uderstand:
> 
> ? ! Undefined control sequence.
> \u-default-1085 #1->\cyrn
> 
> l.1172 }
>         \label{id4712176}}}
> ?                          
> 
> Is there any latex expert the can help me to localize and interpret the
> errors?
I think, in most cases you face utf-8 errors. Either the mapping from
xml to LaTeX creates wrong commands or wrong utf-8 control sequences in
LaTeX or LaTeX can't find the font for this character.

Thats also why we had no luck to create chinese or korean pdfs ...

Greetings,
-- 
Roman Joost
www: http://www.romanofski.de
email: romanofski at gimp.org
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