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- To: frank@debian.org
- Subject: passivetex
- From: "Nenad ANTONIC" <nenad.antonic@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:56:20 +0200
- Message-id: <e055769d0710110356j78731daey2e483e2379482324@mail.gmail.com>
I am responding to the discussion from 15 Jul 2007:
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> Package: xmltex
> Version: 1.9-11.1
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> xmltex is needed for "pdfxmltex" to work
> and recommends (and needs for pdfxmltex to work) passivetex.
> But passivetex has not been included in etch.
The current situation is a bug for sure, but I'm not sure what the
solution is. I would have said that we just drop the recommends.
But now you say that pdfxmltex needs passivetex for it to work.
Frankly, I must admit that I never used xmltex or pdfxmltex, and I don't
know how to check whether it works. Can you provide an example, or tell
me how to produce an error with pdfxmltex?
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Actually, I use (on etch)
xmlto pdf --skip-validation lapn.xml
Making portrait pages on a4 paper (210 mm x 297 mm)
PassiveTeX is needed for this format, but it is not installed. Please install
the passivetex package.
Same for PostScript output.
You can find a number of my xml files (take, e.g. lap.xml) at
http://simbol.math.hr/~nenad/ndoc/
The problems might have been caused by switch from tetex to texlive.
I have also tried:
% pdfxmltex lapn.xml
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdfxmltex.fmt
mktexfmt: no info for format `pdfxmltex'.
I can't find the format file `pdfxmltex.fmt'!
On an old (woody) sun it works; there is /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfxmltex.fmt.
It would be nice to have some dovumentation in PDF/PS format, as
printing of html
does not give satisfactory results.
If any additional testing is needed ....
Thanking you in advance
- Nenad
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