[WM] are these errors with ettext, or am I doing something wrong?

[Robert Echlin]

Virr wrote:

> 
>     I think there is a problem with ettext, or maybe I'm doing something 
> wrong.  I am using webmake 2.3, with any depdency modules installed from 
> CPAN including ettext.  It happens both when I use webmake with my site, 
> and when I use ettext2html.  My machine is a Mac OS X 10.3.5 system, 
> with Perl 5.8.1-rc3 (what came with Mac OS X)
> 
> I describe errors using the example at the bottom of this message.
> 
> First one is if [[3]] in the file then that link does work.  It seems 
> that if there is more than one link of this style things don't work.  
> This does give an error from ettext2html, and webmake.   This seems to 
> also expand to [[test_list [3]] style links.
> 
> Secon one is if I change '1' to '0', '2' to '1', and '3' to '2' (making 
> it a [] style link as well), then the link to [0] is silently dropped.  
> [[0]] link works though.  I noticed this when I tried ethtml2text, and 
> it autogenerated a [0] type link.  It got lost when I tried to go back 
> to with ettext2html.
> 
> Any ideas? or am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Darren
> virr at virr.net
> 
> ---example file index-test.html----
> <wmmeta name="title"> a nearly worthless website </wmmeta>
>     [1]: http://www.example.com
>     [2]: http://www.keysoftsys.com
>     [3]: http://www.virr.net
> -------------------------
> test one [1] link one

I found I had to put a blank line between all my link definitions, 
otherwise only the first one worked.
Also, I was not indenting them, so that may be why yours work better.
Third, I never tried single character link names, or numeric link names.


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