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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XSL 1.60.1 Stylesheet problem with page headersand footers
I'm surprised I haven't seen a bunch of complaints about this already. My toolchain: DocBook XSL 1.60.1 libxml2 2.5.1 libxslt 1.0.24 PassiveTeX 1.21(2003/01/17) Under the latest implementations, PDF generation with PassiveTeX from DocBook 1.60.1 is somewhat broke. I can get PDFs with ugly headers and footers, but only by accepting twelve errors per page. Apparently, PassiveTeX just can't deal with the proportional-column-width element (Sebastian, on his PassiveTeX web page notes that proportional dimensions are "often not recognized"). The error log shows a "Missing number, treated as zero" error at each instance of a proportional-column-width(1), and my resulting PDFs show proportional-column-width(0) repeated in triplicate at the top and bottom of each page. I replaced fo/pagesetup.xsl version 1.34 with version 1.29, and the problem disappeared. Ideally, I suppose, PassiveTeX needs to be able to interpret proportional widths. I don't know what that entails, though. Would it be unreasonable to ask that the next version of pagesetup.xsl set the column widths to 33 or 34 % instead of proportional-column-width when the the passivetex.extensions param is set to 1? Should I put in a RFC? Thanks. Dennis Grace Information Developer IBM Linux Technology Center (512) 838-3937 T/L 678-3937 cell: (512)-296-7830 dgrace@us.ibm.com There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
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