Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

105.0. "%VOILA-F-BUGCHECK, VOILA internal error" by GOBBLR::MULHEREN (Kelly Mulheren, GObE & NetEd) Mon Mar 27 1989 15:58

Can someone please help?!?!

I'm building a software reference manual using the 20-March-89 baselevel of the
online bookbuilding tools. The document build is bug checking. 

Here's the Document command line (V1.1; executed within a batch job):

DOCUMENT/CONTENTS/INDEX/NOPRINT neted-prog-popups online.reference bookreader

Here's the first and last part of the log file:

%DOC-I-IDENT, VAX Document V1.1
[ T a g    T r a n s l a t i o n ]...
%TAG-I-DEFSLOADD, End of Loading of Tag Definitions
%TAG-I-LCL_MSG01, Using online bookbuilding tools, 20-MAR-89 baselevel
%TAG-I-ENDPASS_1, End of first pass over the input
[ T e x t    F o r m a t t i n g ]...
.
.
.
%TEX-I-PAGESOUT, 926 pages written.
-TEX-I-OUTFILENAME, 'WIDGET$:[MULHEREN.SWAT.NETED.DOC]NETED-PROG-POPUPS.DVI_BOOK
READER'
[ C o n t e n t s   G e n e r a t i o n ]...
[ T e x t    F o r m a t t i n g   C o n t e n t s ]...
%TEX-I-INFO, loading online doctype design file, TEX$O_REFERENCE - on page [1]
%TEX-I-PAGETOOSHORT, Page too short - on page [1]
%TEX-I-PAGETOOSHORT, Page too short - on page [2]
%TEX-I-PAGESOUT, 3 pages written.
-TEX-I-OUTFILENAME, 'WIDGET$:[MULHEREN.SWAT.NETED.DOC]NETED-PROG-POPUPS_CONTENTS
.DVI_BOOKREADER'
[ I n d e x    G e n e r a t i o n ]...
%INX-I-ENDPASS_1, End of first pass over input file:
   'WIDGET$:[MULHEREN.SWAT.NETED.DOC]NETED-PROG-POPUPS.INX'
%INX-S-ENDPASS_2, End of second pass over input file.
%INX-S-CREATED, 'WIDGET$:[MULHEREN.SWAT.NETED.DOC]NETED-PROG-POPUPS_INDEX.TEX;1'
 created
[ T e x t    F o r m a t t i n g   I n d e x ]...
%TEX-I-INFO, loading online doctype design file, TEX$O_REFERENCE - on page [1]
%TEX-I-PAGESOUT, 2 pages written.
-TEX-I-OUTFILENAME, 'WIDGET$:[MULHEREN.SWAT.NETED.DOC]NETED-PROG-POPUPS_INDEX.DV
I_BOOKREADER'
[ D e v i c e    C o n v e r s i o n ]...
%DVC-I-INCLUDING, including input file:
   doc$local_formats:small_logo.rags
%DVC-I-INCLUDING, including input file:
   WIDGET$:[MULHEREN.SWAT.NETED.DOC]NETED-PROG-POPUPS_CONTENTS.DVI_BOOKREADER;
%VOILA-F-BUGCHECK, VOILA internal error
  MULHEREN     job terminated at 27-MAR-1989 14:40:26.27



The build generated lots of -I-level informationals about lines too long/short.
No other higher-level diagnostics were issued. Prior to adding symbols to
various tags and converting semi-formal tables to <linline_popup> the
document built fine for hardcopy.

Can anybody help with this? I'll be glad to provide more information.

Thanks,

Kelly

Please send me a pointer to the files and I will look into it.

joe

    Is the length of the file name or file spec a factor here?

    RE .2
    
    No, the file name length is not the problem. I renamed the source file
    to FOO and the book builder still bug checked. 
    
    I've given Joe a pointer to the files.
    
    Thanks for trying.
    
    -Kelly

Blush and double blush :-)

Joe graciously looked at my SDML source file and found that I had formal
tables inside of online popups. This situation is illegal but there are
apparently some problems in the current software with handling it.

Before I was aware of online popups, I had started the process of converting
all of my routine-argument and status-code tables to formal tables so I could
at least get TOC entries. I plannned to add <reference>'s at a later time. When
I discovered online popups, I started using them but forgot to convert the
tables back to informal. Joe converted them back to informal and the online
document built fine.

Many thanks to Joe for finding the problem.

-Kelly