Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

    A quick guess is that you forgot the <contents_file> tag in the
    front_matter but specified /contents on the command line. Which would
    build a contents file but not include it in the bookbuild.
    
    Mike

    that was it!   Thanks!!
    
    - Dick

    Please could someone tell me why I can't use the /output qualifier
    when creating bookreader files?
    
    My command line looks like the following:
    
    doc/cont/noprint/lis a.sdml online.r bookreader /output=b.decw$book

My first reply to -.1 wasn't totally correct.  What I should have said was
that in the current version of the Bookbuilding Tools, the /OUTPUT qualifier
isn't supported.  The reason for this is that we aren't a real 'part' of 
VAX DOCUMENT yet and that's where that support comes from.

In the soon to be released next version, we've added that functionality to
the command line.

Wayne

	Hi there, 

	when formatting the DECdecision Overview for the Bookreader,
	I always get the same error message: 
                                                                           
	%DVC-I-INCLUDING, including input file:
   AA-PATJA-TE_INDEX
BOOKWRITER ERROR--The following symbols are undefined:
        pgid =  24, offset =    714, symbol = '_DECW_SEMIFORMAL_2'
%DVC-E-OUTPUTFAIL, error writing to output file
-DVC-I-INPUTFILE, input file is:
   DECDECISION:[DECISION.CONTROL.DOCU.BUILD]AA-PATJA-TE.DVI_BOOKREADER;
-DVC-I-ONPAGE, on page [9]

%DVC-E-BOOKABORT, aborting run -- book 
DECDECISION:[DECISION.CONTROL.DOCU.BUILD
]AA-PATJA-TE not created


	This appeared when formatting the .DVI_BOOKREADER file with
	$document/notag/notex online.ref bookreader.
	
	I enclose the entire .LIS file below. It might be of interest
	that I was already able to format the files...
	Can anybody help?
	

%DOC-I-IDENT, VAX Document V1.2-B    25-JAN-1990 11:47:33.75
[ 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-SETCONDTN, Setting condition ONLINE
   on line 1 of file DECDECISION:[DECISION.CONTROL.DOCU.BUILD]AA-PATJA-TE.SDML;
%TAG-W-TAGNOTDEF, text, line 1016, file
   5226TUTORIAL.SDML
   Tag <CONDITON> is undefined
%TAG-I-ENDPASS_1, End of first pass over the input
%TAG-W-LCL_MSG13, tag <TAG_DIAGNOSTIC>, line 1, file
   DECDECISION:[DECISION.CONTROL.DOCU.BUILD]AA-PATJA-TE.SDML;
   No LMF information is specified for this document.
%TAG-I-FILEWRTOK, File 5226TITLE.TEX written
....
%TAG-I-UNDEFTAGS, There were 4 undefined tag invocations
[ T e x t    F o r m a t t i n g ]...
%TEX-I-INFO, Loading DOC$STANDARD_FORMATS:TEX$STARTUP.TEX - on page [1]
%TEX-I-INFO, Loading DOC$LOCAL_FORMATS:GE_ONLINE.DESIGN, MW, 9-JAN-1990 - on page [1]
%TEX-I-INFO, loading online doctype design file, TEX$V2REFERENCE - on page [1]
%TEX-I-INFO, Loading DOC$LOCAL_FORMATS:TEX$LANGUAGE_STRINGS.TEX - on page [1]
%TEX-I-LINETOOSHORT, Line too short - on page [5]
....
%TEX-I-LINETOOLONG, Line too long by 19.13238 points
-TEX-I-ONPAGE, on page [164] 
...
%TEX-I-PAGESOUT, 532 pages written.
-TEX-I-OUTFILENAME, 'DECDECISION:[DECISION.CONTROL.DOCU.BUILD]AA-PATJA-TE.DVI_BOOKREADER'
[ 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 DOC$STANDARD_FORMATS:TEX$STARTUP.TEX - on page [1]
%TEX-I-INFO, Loading DOC$LOCAL_FORMATS:GE_ONLINE.DESIGN, MW, 9-JAN-1990 - on page [1]
%TEX-I-INFO, loading online doctype design file, TEX$V2REFERENCE - on page [1]
%TEX-I-INFO, Loading DOC$LOCAL_FORMATS:TEX$LANGUAGE_STRINGS.TEX - on page [1]
%TEX-I-PAGETOOSHORT, Page too short - on page [1]
%TEX-I-PAGESOUT, 2 pages written.
-TEX-I-OUTFILENAME, 'DECDECISION:[DECISION.CONTROL.DOCU.BUILD]AA-PATJA-TE_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: 
   'DECDECISION:[DECISION.CONTROL.DOCU.BUILD]AA-PATJA-TE.INX'
%INX-S-ENDPASS_2, End of second pass over input file.
%INX-S-CREATED, 'DECDECISION:[DECISION.CONTROL.DOCU.BUILD]AA-PATJA-TE_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 DOC$STANDARD_FORMATS:TEX$STARTUP.TEX - on page [1]
%TEX-I-INFO, Loading DOC$LOCAL_FORMATS:GE_ONLINE.DESIGN, MW, 9-JAN-1990 - on page [1]
%TEX-I-INFO, loading online doctype design file, TEX$V2REFERENCE - on page [1]
%TEX-I-INFO, Loading DOC$LOCAL_FORMATS:TEX$LANGUAGE_STRINGS.TEX - on page [1]
%TEX-I-PAGESOUT, 9 pages written.
-TEX-I-OUTFILENAME, 'DECDECISION:[DECISION.CONTROL.DOCU.BUILD]AA-PATJA-TE_INDEX.DVI_BOOKREADER'
[ D e v i c e    C o n v e r s i o n ]...
%DVC-I-INCLUDED, File doc$bookr_fonts:small_logo.rags was successfully included
%DVC-I-INCLUDING, including input file: 
   AA-PATJA-TE_CONTENTS
%DVC-I-INCLUDED, File 5226ctrl-panel.DECW$BOOKFIG was successfully included
...
%DVC-I-INCLUDING, including input file: 
                      
   AA-PATJA-TE_INDEX
%DVC-E-OUTPUTFAIL, error writing to output file
-DVC-I-INPUTFILE, input file is: 
   DECDECISION:[DECISION.CONTROL.DOCU.BUILD]AA-PATJA-TE.DVI_BOOKREADER
-DVC-I-ONPAGE, on page [9] 
 
%DVC-E-BOOKABORT, aborting run -- book  DECDECISION:[DECISION.CONTROL.DOCU.BUILD]AA-PATJA-TE not created 


DOCUMENT AA-PATJA-TE.SDML; ONLINE.GE_REFERENCE BOOKREADER/COND=ONLINE/CONT/INDE=(GUIDE_HEADINGS,SORT=(LETTER))/KEEP/LIST=AA-PATJA-TE.LIS;/LOG/NOPRIN/SYMB=INFO_SYMBOLS.SDML;
Date/Time:  7-MAR-1990 19:19:28.30
CPU time: 1018.9 secs.

    The undefined-symbol problem (_decw_semiformal_2) means there is some
    problem with the coding of <online_popup>/<endonline_popup>,
    specifically the second one in your document. Check that you have
    matching <online_popup> and <endonline_popup> and that you have
    not coded the popup around a formal element. If you cannot find
    the problem, send me the file.
    
    We will look into the second problem.
    
    Mary

I'm making an educated  guess that the logfile in .5 is slightly edited. 
The undefined symbols are caught during the book closing routine when the final
writes are being done to the file. So you get the undefined symbol message from
the bookwriter routines and they pass back an error to the device converter 
which is the outputfail message. Once the undefined symbol is resolved the 
resultant output fail should go away.

Mike