ctest ca/Intro_docbook5 now failing

[Thibaut Cuvelier]

On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 02:43, Thibaut Cuvelier <dourouc05 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Sept 2023 at 02:35, Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 11:52:49PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> > Recently (I think due to the ca/Intro changes) the following test
>> started to fail:
>> >
>> >   export/doc/ca/Intro_docbook5
>> >
>> >  Thibaut, can you take a look? I'm guessing the recent changes to that
>> file just triggered a known issue with DocBook export. Can you confirm so
>> that we can invert that test?
>> >
>>
>> I just inverted it for now (at eb920502). Take a look whenever you have
>> time.
>>
>
> I had a look at that failure. It's a specific feature of that document,
> with an emphasis ending at the end of a footnote (with no character
> afterwards). Is this expected that someone can enter that? I would naïvely
> think that LyX would remove that formatting (just like you cannot have two
> spaces or an empty paragraph). LyXHTML ends the emphasis at the end of the
> footnote, unlike DocBook.
>
> I have the idea for a fix; I'm waiting on your input on whether this is a
> DocBook bug or unexpected LyX behaviour.
>

I made up my mind and decided to replicate the same behaviour as LyXHTML
output: actually, there was some text, indicating a true bug in the
implementation. The attached patch fixes it locally, making it so that the
test can be uninverted. (As previously, I cannot push the commit onto the
Git repository.)
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