Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with passivetex / pdfxmltex

[Patrick Hartling <patrick at vrac dot iastate dot edu>]

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 ...="en"><fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                                                   <fo:block><fo: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@width<>proportional-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-content><fo: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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