On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, John R. Culleton wrote:
I am trying to run a bunch of docbook files related to Krita. The convention in these files seems to be to prefix subordinate file names with an & character.
I do not understand what you mean by this. Can you post a sample text?
If I run e.g, texexec index.docbook it blows up on the first such ampersand. I can of course edit all the files to replace & with \& but I wonder if there is a better strategy?
AFAIU XML, having a lone & in the file is not valid. You need to have & if you want ampersand. Any other entity (&something;) should be appropriately defined by some style file.
I also tried the various "docbook2xxx" style utilities but they all failed to produce meaningful results.
Is it a valid xml file? Is it a valid docbook file? Do the utilities work with simple sample files.
All I want to do is read the #$% files!
Did you try db2latex? It comes with db2context which handles a large subset of docbook specifications. Aditya