[projectaon] Re: First post! (presentation)
- From: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 00:15:04 +0100
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:33:30AM -0800, Jonathan Blake wrote:
> On 3/1/06, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Sure. From what I see in the scripts the PDF conversion is done through
> > LaTeX
> > using the gbtolatex.pl script. The README file claims it uses pdflatex but,
> > as far as I can see, it calls Apache's XSLT processor (which uses Java,
> > which
> > I don't like much). Am I right?
>
> The README should really say something about how the gbtolatex.pl
> script produces a LaTeX file. We then manually run pdflatex on that
> file. The labor intensive part is that we adjust the pagination by
> hand. This has meant an hour or two tweaking the LaTeX file before it
> produces a high-quality PDF.
Well, there are some things that are not commented in the README file, like
the fact that you have to replace the '%xhtml.characters;'
to ' %latex.characters;' in the DOCTYPE definition so you get proper
(indented) characters.
Other caveats I'm running against is:
- the ifthenelse code for the single-page / double-page does not seem to
work, I had to scap it
- the souvenir.sty used includes fonts I have not been able to compile for my
system (I just removed the \usepackage{} call to proceed)
After doing that I've been able to compile the TeX file (I'll forward you a
copy off list). Obviously, images are not included, how I could go around and
add them too?
> We haven't really mucked around with the Java code for Xalan. We just
> use its command line interface.
Ok. I will use the C++ xalan code then. It seems to work for me.
> > What are the (known) issues with PDF conversion? Does the XSL file for LaTeX
> > needs to be reviewed, is the output ok?
>
> The XSL file does indeed need to be reviewed. Since we haven't been
> publishing the PDFs, it has gotten behind the current revision of
> xhtml.xsl.
I'll see what I can do, can you point me (with a diff?) to the changes to the
XHTML XSL which have not been added to the LaTeX XSL? Is it revision 1.3 vs.
1.2
> I had a question: how well does LaTeX handle character encoding other
> than plain ASCII? I ask because 01hdlo.xml makes extensive use of
> accented characters. Will we need to prefilter the XML files before
> feeding them to pdfLaTeX?
You mean 01hh.xml (Freeway Warrior?)
It really depends, when writting LaTeX files for non-ASCII encodings you
typically use a package for your language so you don't need to change
accented characters (á or á) into their LaTeX equivalents (\'a). I
guess we will need to generate conversions for all of them to their LaTeX
equivalente since, if there are far two many, we might not be able to use a
single package to cover them all (maybe babel would do, would need to check).
Regards
Javier
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