Description of problem: A DocBook document using characters such as uppercase Theta cannot be processed by dblatex Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dblatex-0.3.4-8.fc20.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a file, greek.xml, with this content: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY Theta "Θ"> ] > <book> <chapter id="chapter"> <title>Chapter</title> <para> Θ Θ pumpkin eater. </para> </chapter> </book> 2. Run 'dblatex --pdf greek.xml' 3. Open greek.pdf Actual results: Warnings during compilation and the PDF says "Θ Θ pumpkin eater." $ dblatex --pdf greek.xml Build the book set list... Build the listings... XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.3.4) =================================================== Missing character Θ Missing character Θ Build greek.pdf 'greek.pdf' successfully built Expected results: A nice PDF with Greek letters in. Other Greek letters cause dblatex to fail and produce no output at all, e.g. lowercase theta: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY Theta "Θ"> <!ENTITY theta "θ"> ] > <chapter id="chapter"> <title>Chapter</title> <para> Θ θ pumpkin eater. </para> </chapter> $ dblatex --pdf greek.xml Build the book set list... Build the listings... XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.3.4) =================================================== Warning: the root element is not an article nor a book Warning: chapter(chapter) wrapped with book Missing character Θ Build greek.pdf pdflatex failed greek.tex:60: Undefined control sequence \texttheta. greek.tex:60: leading text: \&\#x398; \texttheta Unexpected error occured Error: pdflatex compilation failed Additional info: I found the solution at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720624 and that's been fixed upstream in dblatex 0.3.5, which is now in rawhide. Could the patch to unient.py be backported to Fedora 20?
So, to spare others from having to read the full report until the end to grasp the essential peace of information: - There is a bug in dblatex 0.3.4 which, unsurprisingly, shows up in Fedora's 0.3.4 package. - dblatex 0.3.5 (upstream) has a fix and is merely a bug fix release. - dblatex 0.3.5 is in Fedora rawhide but not in Fedora 20. I will push dblatex 0.3.5 to Fedora 20 as a bugfix update.
dblatex-0.3.5-1.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dblatex-0.3.5-1.fc20
Package dblatex-0.3.5-1.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing dblatex-0.3.5-1.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-7200/dblatex-0.3.5-1.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
dblatex-0.3.5-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.