[publican-list] Publican 4 - brands problems

[Norman Dunbar]

Evening all,

I have created a default book as a test with the following:

$ publican create --type=book --name=Book_001 --langs=en-US

And built it as follows:

$ publican build --langs=en-US --formats=pdf

And all is well.

I then created a brand called jms:

$ publican create_brand --name=jms --lang=en-US

I added my images, updated the xml files etc, and published it:

$ publican build --formats=xml --langs-en-US --publish

And installed it:

$ sudo publican install_brand --path=/usr/share/publican/Common_Content

And everything was fine. I then changed the brand in the publican.cfg 
for my test book from

brand: common

to

brand: jms


Now when I run the build command, I get this one line:

Failed to load brand overrides.cfg file at /usr/local/bin/publican line 797.

And $?=255 immediately afterwards.

I can see overrides.cfg is present in the installed brand directory:

$ ll /usr/share/publican/Common_Content/jms/
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  137 Feb  3 21:18 defaults.cfg
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:14 en-US/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   51 Feb  3 21:18 overrides.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  107 Feb  3 21:18 publican.cfg

It's all a bit strange! The file is present, but can't be found. Is 
there a way to turn on some form of debugging to show exactly what 
publican is doing and where it is looking for this file?


My second problem, I love the html-desktop format when generating a 
book, article etc. It appears to have gone in some of the later versions 
of Publican. Is it coming back again at some point? It really is the 
nicest html output format.

When I try to build with that format, I get html-single instead, I can 
see it being substituted in the output from the build:


$ publican build --langs=en-US --formats=html-desktop
Setting up en-US
...
Beginning work on en-US
DTD Validation OK
         Starting html-desktop
         Using XML::LibXSLT on /usr/share/publican/xsl/html-single.xsl
         Finished html-desktop


Cheers,
Norm.

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Norman Dunbar
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