Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: passivetex reading xslt fo file?

[Marc Haber <mh+docbook-apps@zugschlus.de>]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:44:45AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Do I understand correctly that xsltproc wrote a fo file that
> > passivetex can't read? Can this issue be fixed?
> 
> No, the fo file is ok, because the TexLive 7 version of
> PassiveTeX can process the fo output from xsltproc.

Are you positive that there is not some problem with my XML input?

> The
> problem is likely the TeX setup.  I have only had success
> with PassiveTeX using TexLive.  It is theoretically
> possible to add the PassiveTeX updates to an existing TeX
> installation, but my attempts to do that so far lead to
> failures with obscure errors like you have seen.

That's bad. I will probably go back to openjade.

> Enabling the DocBook XSL passivetex extensions won't help
> here.  Currently the only passivetex extension has to
> do with handling of dashes.

:-(

Greetings
Marc

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