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Running PassiveTeX

A typical invocation would be on a Unix command line:

# make the special TeX format file (first time only)
pdftex -ini "&pdflatex" fotex.tex
# run an XSL processor
xt file.xml somestyle.xsl file.fo
# run pdfTeX on the result; twice, to make sure
# referencing and pagination is stable.
pdflatex "&fotex" file.fo
pdflatex "&fotex" file.fo
# look at the result
acroread file.pdf

Most modern TeX implementations contain pdfTeX.



Michel Goossens
1999-08-13