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Bug 10213 - [~x86] xmltex and passivetex - both ebuilds are for the same thing
Summary: [~x86] xmltex and passivetex - both ebuilds are for the same thing
Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High minor
Assignee: Text-Markup Team (OBSOLETE)
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Keywords:
: 33684 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-11-04 14:04 UTC by Phil Richards
Modified: 2004-02-03 11:18 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
New passivetex files (passivetex.tar.bz2,1.14 MB, application/octet-stream)
2003-10-20 12:46 UTC, Jörg Spanke
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Description Phil Richards 2002-11-04 14:04:28 UTC
xmltex and passivetex are both refering to the same underlying thing:
PassiveTeX.  xmltex appears to be an old ebuild that has now been replaced;
it would perhaps be less confusing to get rid of it... (I almost installed
it, but knew there was a newer version than 1.0 for PassiveTeX so searched
a bit harder...)

Just a thought.
Comment 1 Matthew Turk (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-11-16 01:22:04 UTC
Good call.  Looking into best way to do this... 
Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-11-16 01:43:02 UTC
the way forward, I think, is to remove xmltex from the tree and make an entry in
the 4Q2002 updates file so that old installations of xmltex get transparently
updated to reflect its new name as passivetex.

Comment 3 Matthew Turk (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-12-29 20:28:52 UTC
All fixed and removed! 
Comment 4 Eivind Tagseth 2003-01-14 08:53:02 UTC
Huh?  As far as I can see, the packages called passivetex
(http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Software/passivetex/) and xmltex are two completely
different packages, and passivetex depends on xmltex.

I only just downloaded passivetex and have never used it before, but I could not
get it working without downloading xmltex.

I have no experience in making TeX-packages for Gentoo, so I'm afraid I have no
ebuild to offer.



Eivind
Comment 5 Jonathan Voigt 2003-10-14 12:28:09 UTC
I must echo Eivind, PassiveTeX and xmltex seem to be two separate packages.
 I cannot get PassiveTeX to work on my installation of Gentoo.  I know nothing
about installing macros for TeX and a user needs it, so I was hoping that
the Gentoo ebuilds would take care of it.

I have noticed that almost all of the files in the <a href="ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xmltex/base.zip">xmltex
distribution</a> are nowhere to be found in the /usr/share/texmf tree.

Nor can I get any of the commands on the <a href="http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Software/passivetex/">PassiveTeX
web page</a> to work with my .fo files.  Output:

$ pdflatex "&pdfxmltex" emotions.fo
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdfxmltex.fmt
fmtutil: no info for format `pdfxmltex'.
Sorry, I can't find the format `pdfxmltex.fmt'; will try `pdflatex.fmt'.
(./emotions.fo{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}


Also, the URL (<a
href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/passivetex/">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/passivetex/</a>
for app-text/passivetex seems to be incorrect (404 not found).
Comment 6 Jörg Spanke 2003-10-20 12:46:50 UTC
Created attachment 19545 [details]
New passivetex files

Hi,
I've put all files together for a working passivetex and xmltex environment.

J
Comment 7 Jörg Spanke 2003-10-20 12:46:50 UTC
Created attachment 19545 [details]
New passivetex files

Hi,
I've put all files together for a working passivetex and xmltex environment.

Jörg
Comment 8 Jörg Spanke 2003-10-20 12:57:20 UTC
Hi,
passivetex relies heavily on xmltex. Therefore the current "improved" passivtex
ebuild cannot work. I've prepared a new passivetex.tar.bz2 file, which include
all files needed. After unpacking to /usr/share/ the following commands should
be executed to build the format files:
initex &latex xmltex
pdftex -ini "&pdflatex" pdfxmltex.ini
I will try to provide an ebuild at the end of this week.
Bye,
J
Comment 9 Jörg Spanke 2003-10-20 12:57:20 UTC
Hi,
passivetex relies heavily on xmltex. Therefore the current "improved" passivtex
ebuild cannot work. I've prepared a new passivetex.tar.bz2 file, which include
all files needed. After unpacking to /usr/share/ the following commands should
be executed to build the format files:
initex &latex xmltex
pdftex -ini "&pdflatex" pdfxmltex.ini
I will try to provide an ebuild at the end of this week.
Bye,
Jörg

Some explanatory stuff:

http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Software/passivetex/

- PassiveTeX is a library of TeX macros which can be used to process an XML
document which results from an XSL transformation to formatting objects.
- PassiveTeX provides a rapid development environment for experimenting with
XSL FO, using a reliable pre-existing formatter
- Running PassiveTeX with the pdfTeX variant of TeX generates high-quality
PDF files in a single operation.
- PassiveTeX shows how TeX can remain the formatter of choice for XML, while
hiding the details of its operation from the user.

PassiveTeX relies heavily on work by David Carlisle (his namespace-aware
XML parser written in TeX, xmltex), and was developed from my JadeTeX macros
for processing DSSSL via Jade.


http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/xmltex/base/manual.html

xmltex: A non validating (and not 100% conforming) namespace aware XML parser
implemented in TeX

xmltex implements a non validating parser for documents matching the W3C
XML Namespaces Recommendation. The system may just be used to parse the file
(expanding entity references and normalising namespace declarations) in which
case it records a trace of the parse on the terminal. Normally however the
information from the parse is used to trigger TeX typesetting code. Declarations
(in TeX syntax) are provided as part of xmltex to associate TeX code with
the start and end of each XML element, attributes, processing instructions,
and with unicode character data.
Comment 10 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-22 03:23:40 UTC
I must concur with the reporters, I dont think this is fixed at all
Comment 11 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-22 03:24:13 UTC
usata, can i get your opinions on this if you have time ? thanks.
Comment 12 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-13 14:33:50 UTC
I think passivetex and xmltex are different packages too; actually
ctan.org has passivetex ander contrib subdirectory of xmltex.
From passivetex homepage http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Software/passivetex/
(HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI of passivetex-1.4.ebuild isn't correct) it says:

  You need to download xmltex from CTAN and install it in the your TeX
  system. It too is just a set of TeX macro packages.  IMPORTANT NOTE.
  You need a copy of xmltex.tex latex than 2001/11/30.

So dev-tex/xmltex should be created and passivetex should depend on
it.
Comment 13 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-13 18:23:19 UTC
yep, ta for the confirmation usata. i've sort of got this locally (needs a few bugs ironed out) and then i can get it in. 
Comment 14 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-17 18:12:11 UTC
*** Bug 33684 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Nikolai Weibull 2004-01-21 08:15:38 UTC
is this actually going to be fixed in a foreseeable future?  I would really like to get xmlto working on my box, as it's the only script that's really worked for me so far.
Comment 16 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-01 06:16:41 UTC
Sorry for the delay. I committed passivetex-1.4-r1.ebuild
which depends on dev-tex/xmltex. Please test it and report
back if it works for you.
Comment 17 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-01 06:42:48 UTC
Great work usata!
Comment 18 Nikolai Weibull 2004-02-02 05:18:52 UTC
Sorry, but this still isn't complete.  The passivetex that's being used seems buggy, and is not the latest one available at the homepage.  Also, the xmltex that is being used is too old to satisfy passivetex's needs it seems.  One needs the latest one available at CTAN.  Then it works, but the output is quite ugly.  See the zip-file at http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Software/passivetex/ and the text that goes with it describing the xmltex dependency.  See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xmltex.html?preferredCTAN=ctan.unsw.edu.au&action=/tools/cataloguesearch&catstring=xmltex for latest xmltex that I was able to find (2002/06/25 update).
Comment 19 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-02 07:51:54 UTC
Thanks for the test and comment. I've just committed the latest
xmltex-1.9 and passivetex-1.25 (yesterday I only checked xmltex,
sorry). passivetex seems to work (as you pointed out, it gives me a
lots of errors, though).  Do you know any solution to these errors?
Comment 20 Nikolai Weibull 2004-02-03 11:18:43 UTC
Hm, your latest patch (using passivetex-1.25 and xmltex-1.9) works fine here.  I did a clean reinstall of tetex, xmltex, and passivetex since I figured there would be some cruft left behind.  Anyway, there are still some warnings when processing fo files produced by docbook-xml-dtd-4.2 and docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.62.4, but these are only font-related and unrelated "underfull \hbox ..."-type errors.  I suggest that you remove /usr/share/texmf completely and reinstall the above packages if it produces more errors than these for you.  The output pdf's, though, aren't perfect yet, but that's probably because docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.62.4 is asking passivetex to do stuff it can't do yet.  Anyway, hope this helps, and thanks for taking your time to investigate this bug.