Re: Adding dispspecs

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:31:45PM +0100, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
> Il lun, 2004-02-16 alle 11:37, Geert Stappers ha scritto:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:40:16AM +0100, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
> > > Hi all,
<snip/>
> > >                   It would be nice to be able to modify
> > > current dispspecs, then drop the modified versions in the dispspec
> > > directory and have them work automagically; 
<snip/>
> > 
> > AFAIK Conglomerate loads the XDS files only during startup.
> 
> Indeed, this is the output on the command line:
> 
> ** Message: Loading xds files from "/home/roby/.conglomerate/dispspecs"
>  
> CongDispspecRegistry contains 14 dispspec(s)
> ds[0] = "Experimental "cnxml" format"
> ds[1] = "Name of this document type"
<snip/>
> ds[12] = "TEI Lite"
> ds[13] = "Digital Scriptorium"
> 
> The 13th dispspec (Digital Scriptorium) is the one I added before
> launching C.
  launching C-compiler?
  launching Conglomerate?
( /me telling that I first didn't understood what you mean with 'C' )

> 
> > IIRC there is _in_ conge a display spec file edit function,
> > that can reload the fresh edited dot xds.
> 
> Having to restart Conglomerate in case you add a new dispspec doesn't
> look particularly cumbersome, provided that dropping it in the
> appropriate directory and restarting the program actually means having
> the dispspec working. In fact, this is what happens when I try to load a
> DS document:
> 
> ** Message: coverage of TEI Lite = 0,838710
> ** Message: coverage of Digital Scriptorium = 0,991935
> 
> Here Conglomerate identifies the DS dispspec as being the closest one to
> the document, then prints these lines
> 
> ** Message: searching for "paragraph" found "admonition"
> ** Message: searching for "paragraph" found "listitem"
> ** Message: searching for "paragraph" found "paragraph"
> 
> And dies.
Dies??? Could it be downloading of DTDs?
( http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117469 )

> For one of my sample documents I also get this:
> 
> ** (conglomerate:4118): WARNING **: unable to convert attribute end
> index 4
>  
> ** (conglomerate:4118): WARNING **: unable to convert attribute end
> index 4
> 
> I wonder if it's because of some mistakes I could have done in modifying
> the TEI lite dispspec to generate the DS one.

I do get those warnings also. However, I don't known what they mean.
This message is just to tell you to not doubt your effort
on adding dispspecs.

> 
> Ciao
> 
> -- 
> Roberto Rosselli Del Turco      roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it

Geert Stappers