Re: [Docutils-users] docutils 0.6 Problem

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2010-04-27, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 4/26/2010 2:45 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>> On 2010-04-24, Tim Daneliuk wrote:

...

> 3) Ran the same thing *without* the --stylesheet=parskip argument and
>    got the same error.

> This points inevitably to a misconfigured TeX installation, but I
> haven't a clue what the issue might be.  This is running on FreeBSD
> 8.0-STABLE with the following relevant ports/packages:

> docproj-jadetex-1.17_4 The "meta-port" for the FreeBSD Documentation Project
> dvipsk-tetex-5.95a_5 Convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript
> jadetex-3.13_6      A TeX backend for Jade, for typesetting SGML documents
> latex-cjk-4.8.2_4   A LaTeX2e macro package which enables the use of CJK script
> teTeX-3.0_4         A meta port for teTeX suite
> teTeX-base-3.0_20   Thomas Esser's distribution of TeX & friends (binaries)
> teTeX-texmf-3.0_6   Thomas Esser's distribution of TeX & friends (texmf tree)
> tex-texmflocal-1.9  Meta-port that creates a site-local $TEXMF directory
> xdvik-tetex-22.84.16_2 DVI Previewer(kpathsearch) for X

teTeX is is rather outdated by now and discontinued. Even Debian
switched to TeXLive some years ago. So, maybe it's a compatibility issue.

> Ideas?

* Test your LaTeX installation (verify it works as expected independent
  of Docutils).
  
* Test without a makefile, with a very simple rst source.

* Test without makefils with the offending rst source.

>> provide a `minimal example`__ (smallest possible source that results
>> in this error) and the generated latex file.

__ http://docutils.sourceforge.net/BUGS.html#minimal-example

Günter