Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: need help with Passivetex errors

[Janning Vygen <vygen at gmx dot de>]

Thanks very much for your detailed explanations. I gonna take this 
challenge as soon as i got the time.

I tried FOP already and the rendering isnt as nice as i expected. 
example: the pagenumbering in the table of content doesnt look very 
nice.

What about Passivetex rendering: Are there any /many problems like 
this? Or can you really generate a printable PDF for real life (which 
means: it looks very fine) 

Are there any webpages which compares FOP/PassiveText/XEP (are there 
any others?) with showing real world pdfs to look at?

kind regards
janning

Am Mittwoch, 11. September 2002 13:33 schrieb Alex Lancaster:
> >>>>> "AL" == Alex Lancaster <alexl@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> AL> Giuseppe and Janning,
>
> AL> You probably need to upgrade your PassiveTeX setup to 1.18
> (which AL> is available at:
> http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Software/passivetex/).
>
> AL> There were some problems with the old version of PassiveTeX
> AL> (related to <fo:static-content>) and with 1.53.0 of the
> AL> stylesheets that Bob Stayton identified and fixed:
>
> AL>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=593600&gro
>up_id=21935&atid=373747
>
> AL> However, with the release of 1.54.1 and PassiveTeX 1.18, these
> AL> changes mentioned in the above Tracker have, I think, been
> merged AL> into their respective main releases, so you should
> simply be able AL> to upgrade your PassiveTeX setup, if you already
> have 1.54.1.
>
> Erm, scratch that, you will need the PassiveTeX patches.  I just
> checked my setup, and the version that fixes the FO problems is
> 1.19, which hasn't "officially" been released.  So you'll have to
> manually install the fixes to PassiveTeX that Bob provides as
> downloads in the SourceForge tracker request (URL given above).
>
> [PS, what I did on my Red Hat 7.3 machine, was to package up the
> changes to 1.18 in a new passivetex.zip file, changed the spec file
> version of the passivetex RPM to 1.19 and then rebuilt the rpm
> (using "rpm -ba") using the new passivetex.zip.  This resulted in a
> new RPM that I could simply "upgrade" (using "rpm -Uvh"), since the
> RPM spec file already has all the logic to rebuild the .fmt files,
> and overwrites the old files in a clean way, so you don't have two
> installations of passivetex to get confused by.  It also means I
> don't have to worry about all that !@%$#& TeX voodoo or manually
> changing any files under '/usr/{lib,share,include,bin}' which
> should only be touched by rpm.  Since SuSE uses RPM, I'm sure
> something similar should work for SuSE, but your mileage may
> vary...]
>
> A.

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