generating pdf docs

[erik flister]

hey jan-
i'm trying to generate a pdf doc for a module i've written. back in january
you explained how to use pldoc and ltx2htm to get tex output and stand alone
html files -- i got this working fine (both for my module and for swipl
system/packages). but i can't seem to be able to convert the tex to pdf for
anything (except most of the swipl packages).

i'm on osx 10.5.7, and have used macports to install swipl dependencies and
texlive (successor to tetex, latest available macport is 2007), and have
updated my swipl to 5.7.10 with the latest git.

i've followed all the instructions (i think successfully) in
pl-57x/README.doc and pl-57x/man/txt/README.

note minor tweaks to instructions in the latter -- in addition to changing
TEXMF in pl-57x/man/txt/Makefile, i had to manually mkdir a tfm directory in
/opt/local/share/texmf/ in order for it to work. also, i had to use 'sudo
make install' rather than just 'make' in pl-57x/man/txt/dvi2tty/.

then, in pl-57x, 'make doc' does not work -- the line 'eval set -- "$TEMP"'
in pl-57x/man/runtex seems to be a problem. if i echo $2 before this line, i
get the proper file name that was passed to runtex. but after this line, $2
evaluates to the character 'n'. the --pdf case shifts this to $1 which is
later copied into file, and pdftex ultimately complains it can't find 'n'.

so i tried setting file="$2" above this line (and commenting out the
file="$1" a little ways below). this gets me farther.

in pl-57x/man/correctindex, i have to change /usr/local/bin/perl to
/usr/bin/perl (or /opt/local/bin/perl -- these are perls 5.8.8 and 5.8.9
respectively, the latest available built in to osx and macports
respectively).

but then i get lots of Underfull and Overfull \hbox and \vbox warnings, and
citation/reference undefined warnings. also, the following errors pause
execution and have to be acknowledged by hitting enter:
! LaTeX Error: File `xrefchatfile' not found.
! LaTeX Error: File `xrefchatdep' not found.
! LaTeX Error: File `profnode' not found.

those files are gif's and png's in pl-57x/man/figs/.

no doc.pdf or MANUAL.pdf is generated, but lots of intermediates (.aux,
.dvi, .log, .tex, .bbl, .blg, .idx, .ilg, .ind, .toc) are produced for doc.
lots of other base filenames get one or both of .aux's and .tex's (attvar,
bit64, builtin, chr, dialect, foreign, glossary, hack, ide, intro, license,
module, overview, profile, runtime, summary, threads, xpce, xref). some
.doc's don't (biblio, heaps, main, windows).

several of the package directories do get nice pdf's -- clib, pldoc, R,
plunit, tipc, ssl, http, semweb, rdf2pl, pl2cpp, odbc, sgml, zlib, nlp,
table, jasmine, cppproxy, db4pl. many but not all of them have blank
Contents sections. the other packages don't have pdfs, but they also don't
have .doc's (except for jpl, ltx2htm, and xpce/man, these have .doc's but no
pdfs).

so, any idea what i need to do to get 'make doc' to make the pdf's smoothly?
and once that works, i'd like to know how to convert the doc_latex generated
.tex for my own module to pdf. if i try to run my (altered as per above)
'runtex --pdf' on it, i get:
! LaTeX Error: File `pldoc.sty' not found.

on an unrelated note, i was hoping to find out where i could learn more
about the details of predicate indexing in swipl.

thanks for your help!
doc.log attached.
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