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Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:Online Bookbuilding
Notice:This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:VAXUUM::UTT
Created:Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:440
Total number of notes:2134

356.0. "Symbol Undefined Error _decw_semiformal_1" by ZORBA::BURACK (Not Fade Away) Mon Jul 02 1990 19:55

    Hi,
    
    After taking hours to run my book bombed... error is:
    
    BOOKWRITER ERROR -- THE FOLLOWING SYMBOLS ARE UNDEFINED:
     PGID = 21, OFFSET = 2281, SYMBOL = '_DECW_SEMIFORMAL_1'
    %DVC-E-OUTPUTFAIL, error writing to output file
    .
    .
    .
    aborting book run
    
    Don't have a clue as to what this means.
    (DOCUMENT 1-2B)
    
    Thanks,
    
    Ruth-Ellen
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356.1Check the first <ONLINE_POPUP>CLOSET::GRANTI&#039;ve saved $2551.50 since I quit smoking.Tue Jul 03 1990 09:5426
    Ruth-Ellen,
    
    	The undefined symbol _DECW_SEMIFORMAL_n error messages are usually
    caused by improper coding of <ONLINE_POPUP>/<ENDONLINE_POPUP> tags. 
    The number usually indicates which popup is causing the problem.  In
    your case, the first.  Check to be sure you haven't coded any formal
    figures, tables or examples within your popup.  Also, <HEADn> tags are
    not allowed within popups.
    
    	You may find that the following notes contain helpfull information. 
    		70, 113, 203, 205, 243, 274
    
    (I apologize for not having sufficient keywords to make the search
    easier when trying to find related notes.  I hope to have time soon to
    go over the notes file, adding keywords.)
    
    	The next release of the Bookbuilding tools should help to prevent
    these undefined symbol problems.  Better error checking has been added
    to the tag translation phase.  To do some better testing of these new
    tools, I'd appreciate it if you could send me pointers to the .SDML and
    .DVI_BOOKREADER files that are giving you this error.  I've tested
    using my own test files, but nothing is better than testing with 'real
    world' files.
    
    Thanks,
    	Wayne
356.2<online_popup> was itZORBA::BURACKNot Fade AwayTue Jul 03 1990 13:1411
    Hi Wayne,
    
    Thanks.. that was the problem. I used <ONLINE_POPUP> with a formal
    figure.. the person who reviewed my books suggested it, then I read the
    documentation, but missed the word "informal".
    
    I will leave the figure the way it was. 
    
    I don't have the .DVI_BOOKREADER files. I didn't keep them. Sorry.
    
    Ruth-Ellen