2009/08/18 - Apache AxKit has been retired.

Seems like what you really want is a "Provider::Pipe" module... Then you
could 
just use a PerlSetVar to define what command to pipe output from. That
would 
let you incorporate stdout from any process into a pipeline (and it should
be 
about a 5 line piece of code, I'd just post it with this email but I'm 
falling asleep...). 

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 09:03 am, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:48, Marco Marongiu wrote:
> > 1) Could it be a good idea to provide a environment variable (via
> > PerlSetVar, for example) to tell PassiveTeX which program it should
call
> > system on? I could modify it and pass the diff here, if you like;
>
> if you rename the module "TeX", then yes that technique would work fine.
>
> > 2) will it work if I don't output any XSL:FO? As I said before, I don't
> > know any of it
>
> you'd have to write  a stylesheet to convert your XML to LaTeX.
> if you are happy with that, it will work fine.
>
> you could always generate HTML and read it into Open Office and print
> from there

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Tod G. Harter
Giant Electronic Brain