Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: PassiveTex problems

[Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>]

> Matthias Gutbier wrote:
> 
> I use the newest XSL docbook stylesheets together with PassiveTex and
> have several problems (saxon or xalan XSL processor):
> 
> 1) error messages in Tex, when processing the resulting fo file:
> 
>    --Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted)
>   --(to be read again)
>   --l.3019 </fo:list-item-label>
> 
> This error occurs in areas, tagged with "itemizedlist" and causes TEX
> to print the text "label-end()" in the page header of the pdf output.

This is a bug in PassiveTeX.
 
> 2) German Hyphenation (justified paragraphs) seems not to work at all
> in TEX (Seems to be disabled)(Can't be a TEX config problem. It works
> with JADE.).

Does your document contain lang="de" on root element? This information
is passed to TeX in order to switch to correct hyphenation patterns.
 
> 3) Tex can't find any images (but does, if I use 1.29 stylesheets):
>   -- File 'url(file:./images/pin.png' not found on input ...

url(...) is correct syntax for URLs in FO. PassiveTeX currently does not
handle this syntax. You must customize newer stylesheet or wait for a
while. In a future XSL stylesheets might contain special treatement of
this for PassiveTeX. Better solution would be to fix this directly in
PassiveTeX (any time schedule for new PassiveTeX release Sebastian?).

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