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Subject: "xmlto pdf" command fails in TeX/LaTeX step on debian system.
Note: this is not a cross-post. I posted this to the debian-user mailing list a few days ago but since I did not get a single response I thought this might elicit more interest in a specialized mailing list, although it is quite likely caused by some misconfiguration of the debian system on my part. I am currently evaluating DocBook as a framework to start building a personal documentation system (together with LaTeX and a couple of lesser-known products). I started playing with DocBook over the weekend and while the "xmlto html" and "xmlto html-nochunks" commands worked absolutely fine from the word go, the generation of pdf (or ps) documents does not function correctly. It looks like I might be missing a LaTeX package or that LaTeX is not correctly configured on my system. I suspect a problem with certain fonts somehow not being accessible -- although I ran into no such problems while evaluating LaTeX. Here is the output of the "xmlto pdf" command. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [12:05:42][user@turki:~/devel/docbook/tests/xml-dir]$ xmlto pdf cheat.xml Making portrait pages on letter paper (215.9 mm x 279.4 mm) This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./tmp.fo{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b ahasa, basque, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, finnish, greek, iceland ic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, norsk, portuges, romanian, russian, s lovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, turkish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded. xmltex version: 2002/06/25 v1.9 (Exp): (/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/config/xmltex.cfg) No File: tmp.cfg (/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/passivetex/fotex.xmt) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/passivetex/fotex.sty ) No file tmp.aux. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2acmr.fd) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd) No file tmp.out. No file tmp.out. INFO: Using normal, i.e. nonfrench-spacing in document (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1phv.fd) [1{/var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/pdf tex.map}] Overfull \vbox (10.0pt too high) has occurred while \output is active [2] Overfull \vbox (10.0pt too high) has occurred while \output is active [3] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/wasysym/uwasy.fd) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/ustmry.fd) [4] [5] ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H <return> for immediate help. ... l.370 ..." hyphenation-remain-character-count="2"> Chapter 1. Movem... ? ! Emergency stop. ... l.370 ..." hyphenation-remain-character-count="2"> Chapter 1. Movem... ! ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! Transcript written on tmp.log. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have found a few similar occurrences via google but nothing about a possible cause or solution. If I break down the generation into two steps, .. the "xmlto fo cheat.xml" runs successfully. but then the ensuing .. .. "xmltex cheat.fo" runs into what appears to be the same problem. If tried to hit <enter> a few times and this eventually causes xmltex to recover from the error and eventually produce a c. 400 pages pdf with empty pages .. "opt opt" near the top of each page is about all there is in it. The test document is an excerpt from my personal vim cheat sheet and consists mostly of large tables but I have also tried the same procedure on a bare-bones document of the "Hello World" type and the results are identical. So if anyone could advise I would greatly appreciate. In case this is a known problem with debian sarge, I am currently building a next-generation debian etch system on another set of partitions. If this is a bug that's fixed with the LaTeX setup that comes with the newer release I could switch at short notice. FYI - if anyone on the list is familiar with the way DocBook is packaged on debian systems, here is a list of what to the best of my knowledge are the relevant packages that are installed on my system. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- $ dpkg -l ... ii gettext 0.14.4-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii gettext-base 0.14.1-6 GNU Internationalization utilities fo ii html2text 1.3.2a-2 An advanced HTML to text converter ii jadetex 3.13-6 generator of printable output from SG ii latex-ucs 20041017-1 support for using UTF-8 input encodin ii latex-xft-font 0.1-4 Xft-compatible versions of some LaTeX ii latex2html 2002-2-1-10 LaTeX to HTML translator ii liblocale-gett 1.01-17 Using libc functions for internationa ii libtext-charwi 0.04-1 get display widths of characters on t ii libtext-iconv- 1.2-3 Convert between character sets in Per ii libtext-wrapi1 0.06-1 internationalized substitute of Text: ii passivetex 1.25-2 Macros to process XSL formatting obje ii preview-latex- 0.8.1+0-3 LaTeX style files for editor embedded ii tetex-base 2.0.2c-3 Basic library files of teTeX ii tetex-bin 2.0.2-23 The teTeX binary files ii tetex-doc 2.0.2c-8 The documentation component of the De ii tetex-extra 2.0.2c-3 Additional library files of teTeX ii texinfo 4.7-2.2 Documentation system for on-line info ii textutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU text file processing utilitie ii vim-latexsuite 0.20041219-1 brings the LaTeX power to Vim ii xmltex 1.9-10 TeX package for processing XML files ii docbook 4.3-1 standard SGML representation system f ii docbook-dsssl 1.79-1 modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets, fo ii docbook-utils 0.6.14-1 Convert Docbook files to other format ii docbook-xml 4.3-1 standard XML documentation system, fo ii docbook-xsl 1.68.1-0.1 stylesheets for processing DocBook XM ii ldp-docbook-ds 0.0.20040321-2 The Linux Documentation Project's DSS ii docbook-xml 4.3-1 standard XML documentation system, fo ii libxml-parser- 2.34-4 Perl module for parsing XML files ii libxml1 1.8.17-10 GNOME XML library ii libxml2 2.6.16-2 GNOME XML library ii libxml2-utils 2.6.16-7 XML utilities ii python2.3-xml 0.8.4-1 XML tools for Python (2.3.x) ii xml-core 0.09 XML infrastructure and XML catalog fi ii xmltex 1.9-10 TeX package for processing XML files ii xmlto 0.0.18-5 XML-to-any converter (truncated to 72 columns) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In case anyone would like to take a quick look at my test document, or try to recreate the problem I have uploaded "cheat.xml" at: http://www.geocities.com/cga9999/docbook/cheat.xml Thanks, cga
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