Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with passivetex / pdfxmltex
Hi! On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Adam Turoff wrote: [] teTeX anyway While TeXLive may be better, it's a rather big download (~270 MB), a snapshot of an ISO filesystem, and quite unlikey to become a FreeBSD port You don't have to port *all* of TeXLive to FreeBSD I think you can surely omit the binaries for the other platforms, which should lead to a significant decrease in size ;-) Greetings, Holger
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with passivetex / pdfxmltex
I am having these exact problems with TeX Live installed yesterday from
the referenced ISO. I have the updated xmltex.tex from the PassiveTeX
website, and I am using the PassiveTeX version from the same site. The
FO was generated by Xalan with PassiveTeX extensions enabled. I get
identical results using Saxon 6.5.1. I am using version 1.49 of the
DocBook XSL stylesheets.
If I use the PassiveTeX installation that comes with TeX Live, I get the
following errors instead:
! LaTeX Error: File `url.sty' not found.
I fill in the path and then get:
! LaTeX Error: File `ulem.sty' not found.
I fill in a path for that file, and then I get this one:
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
to be read again
\Odd:
l.2 ...=enfo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body
fo:blockfo:block
font-f...
I'm probably asking for trouble by mixing and matching
xmltex/PassiveTeX/TeX Live versions this way, so what is the right way to
install all of these tools?
Right now, I am getting by with Jade+JadeTeX+DSSSL, but I would really
prefer to use the XSL stylesheets if possible. Is there something I can
try or tweak with TeX Live to deal with this?
-Patrick
Adam Turoff wrote:
I'm trying to install PassiveTeX on a handful of computers. The
Win* boxen configured like a charm thanks to MiKTeX. My FreeBSD box,
however, has been no end of headaches.
I started out with a vanilla teTeX 1.0.7 install, and had some problems
with pdfxmltex; after poking around the list archives for a while, I
saw that I needed to upgrade from pdftex-13d to pdftex-14h; after a lot
of guesswork that seems to be OK.
But now something still seems to be broken. pdflatex works just
fine, and I can format one of the test files in the passivetex/test
directory just fine with xmltex/dvipdfm, but never with pdfxmltex:
$ pdfxmltex teiu5.fo
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)
(./teiu5.fo{/usr/local/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
LaTeX2e 1999/12/01 patch level 1
Babel v3.6Z and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
xmltex version: 2000-03-08 v0.14 DPC
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/xmltex.cfg)
No File: teiu5.cfg (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/fotex.xmt
! Undefined control sequence.
l.24 \XMLstringX
\prop@widthproportional-column-width(1)/
? ^D
! Emergency stop.
And xmltex fails on some of the *.fo files, particularly darkness.fo:
$ xmltex darkness.fo
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(darkness.fo
LaTeX2e 1999/12/01 patch level 1
Babel v3.6Z and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
xmltex version: 2000/09/07 v1.8y (Exp):
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/xmltex.cfg)
[...]
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd)
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
to be read again
\Odd:
l.1 ...r//fo:block/fo:static-contentfo:flow
I've run texhash many times, and built pdfxmltex.fmt and xmltex.fmt
thusly:
initex \latex /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/xmltex.tex
pdfinitex \pdflatex \
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/pdfxmltex.ini
Any ideas what might be going wrong? Both errors seem pretty fundemental...
Thanks,
Z.
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Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with passivetex / pdfxmltex
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:51:05AM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Adam Turoff wrote: I started out with a vanilla teTeX 1.0.7 install, [...] I recommend that you use TeXLive instead of the teTeX that comes with FreeBSD. It's available from I understand that TeXLive might be the best TeX distribution out there today, but I'd really prefer to fix the up-to-date teTeX installation if at all possible. From what I gather, it's *mostly* working. pdflatex is fine, and in some cases xmltex - dvipdfm is fine (some tests fail for some unexplained reason). The errors I'm seeing appear to be fundemental (i.e. fotex.xmt isn't loading properly with xmltex.tex). This ISO image contains TeX setups for various Unix derivates (including FreeBSD) and for Win*. In my opinion, it's got the best setup for TeX stuff related to SGML/XML processing. Ideally, I'd like to solve the problem of upgrading pdftex and installing passivetex to get the job done. Once that's complete, I want to make a couple of ports for the FreeBSD Ports collection to solve this problem for FreeBSD users who tend to be running teTeX anyway. While TeXLive may be better, it's a rather big download (~270 MB), a snapshot of an ISO filesystem, and quite unlikey to become a FreeBSD port... Thanks for your recommendation, and I'm downloading the ISO file at the moment. It looks like it'll take 12 hours to download over a modem. :-S Z.
DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with passivetex / pdfxmltex
I'm trying to install PassiveTeX on a handful of computers. The
Win* boxen configured like a charm thanks to MiKTeX. My FreeBSD box,
however, has been no end of headaches.
I started out with a vanilla teTeX 1.0.7 install, and had some problems
with pdfxmltex; after poking around the list archives for a while, I
saw that I needed to upgrade from pdftex-13d to pdftex-14h; after a lot
of guesswork that seems to be OK.
But now something still seems to be broken. pdflatex works just
fine, and I can format one of the test files in the passivetex/test
directory just fine with xmltex/dvipdfm, but never with pdfxmltex:
$ pdfxmltex teiu5.fo
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)
(./teiu5.fo{/usr/local/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
LaTeX2e 1999/12/01 patch level 1
Babel v3.6Z and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
xmltex version: 2000-03-08 v0.14 DPC
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/xmltex.cfg)
No File: teiu5.cfg (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/fotex.xmt
! Undefined control sequence.
l.24 \XMLstringX
\prop@widthproportional-column-width(1)/
? ^D
! Emergency stop.
And xmltex fails on some of the *.fo files, particularly darkness.fo:
$ xmltex darkness.fo
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(darkness.fo
LaTeX2e 1999/12/01 patch level 1
Babel v3.6Z and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
xmltex version: 2000/09/07 v1.8y (Exp):
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/xmltex.cfg)
[...]
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd)
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
to be read again
\Odd:
l.1 ...r//fo:block/fo:static-contentfo:flow
I've run texhash many times, and built pdfxmltex.fmt and xmltex.fmt
thusly:
initex \latex /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/xmltex.tex
pdfinitex \pdflatex \
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/passivetex/pdfxmltex.ini
Any ideas what might be going wrong? Both errors seem pretty fundemental...
Thanks,
Z.
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with passivetex / pdfxmltex
Hi! On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Adam Turoff wrote: I'm trying to install PassiveTeX on a handful of computers. The Win* boxen configured like a charm thanks to MiKTeX. My FreeBSD box, however, has been no end of headaches. I started out with a vanilla teTeX 1.0.7 install, [...] I recommend that you use TeXLive instead of the teTeX that comes with FreeBSD. It's available from ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/texlive/ (That's the German TeX Users' Group, you should probably pick a site closer to you). Grab the file texlive-final-20010730.iso.bz2 This ISO image contains TeX setups for various Unix derivates (including FreeBSD) and for Win*. In my opinion, it's got the best setup for TeX stuff related to SGML/XML processing. Greetings, Holger
