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Problems with passivetex / pdfxmltex
- From: Adam Turoff <ziggy at panix dot com>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 01:42:27 -0500
- Subject: 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@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.