LEMDO 2025-02-18 to 2025-02-21
to : Martin Holmes
Minutes: 335
On Monday, diagnosed a bug reported by BGH on OSX when inserting anchors: there is a colliding keystroke shortcut which attempts to search the system manuals from the terminal. The solution seems to be to disable that shortcut, which I can’t imagine anyone using anyway. See issue #300. Then worked on trying to get the HW PDF to build (issue #253). There were many oddities about the text which prevented things from working, but after a lot of tweaking I managed to get it building up to page 277; something goes wrong there which I wasn’t able to figure out before the end of the day.
On Wednesday, continued this work, and got the whole thing building after fixing a couple of bugs, with the exception of the table of contents, which is currently empty for some reason.
On Thursday, fixed an invalid file to rescue the build. Then went back to figuring out
why the TOC was not rendering in the HW PDF. Eventually I twigged that there were <front>
elements in the annotation files, and those were causing <docTitle> elements
in the processed TEI which were then triggering erroneous TOC entries pointing at nothing, because
there was actually nothing to point at. First of all added a template to remove any such things
in the preprocessing stage in future, and then per JJ removed the front elements from the
annotations files, since they were already causing a duplicate title problem on the
website.
On Friday, worked with NH and JJ to set up the BEEED repository and get that project started.