[Gimp-docs] help in interpreting latex error

[Marco Ciampa]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:41:48PM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:22:01PM +0200, Roman Joost wrote:
> > 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 ...
> > 
> I understand but these errors where encountered during the making of the
> italian and the english (!) manuals.
> 
> Could be a missing lang="xx" tag but I do not understand even the error
> message syntax so I do not know where to look for the error.
> Where is the error? Which line? In which file, .xml or .tex?
> 
> LaTex experts please help! :-)
Sorry for the noise. I found a error in a lang attrib.

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Marco Ciampa

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