Thanks a lot for the info. I visited the docbook page, got the
latest style sheet and it worked fine.
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Koichi Suzuki
2011/8/19 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> I wrote:
>> As far as I can tell, there is no "bold" template in the 1.69.1 files,
>> though I do see it in the 1.76.1 files. So this looks to me like we
>> have a minimum version dependency for docbook-style-xsl, and a
>> relatively recent one at that (1.69 is six or so years old).
>
> Some digging in the docbook release notes suggests that this probably
> changed in 1.73.0, which was released in July 2007:
>
> * Michael(tm) Smith: synop.xsl; block.xsl; info.xsl; inline.xsl; lists.xsl;
> endnotes.xsl;
>
> Changed handling of bold and italic/underline output in manpages
> output. Should be transparent to users, but...
>
> This touches handling of all bold and italic/underline output. The
> exact change is that the mode="bold" and mode="italic" utility
> templates were changed to named templates. (I think maybe I've
> changed it back and forth from mode to named before, so this is
> maybe re-reverting it yet again).
>
> I haven't actually tested whether we can build against 1.73.0, but that
> seems like a good place to start.
>
> regards, tom lane
>