[projectaon] Re: First post! (presentation)

  • From: "Jonathan Blake" <blake.jon@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:29:07 -0800

On 3/2/06, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I'm not stubborn about using Souvenir. There are other similar fonts
> > such as Zapf Elliptical. I'm not sure what LaTeX font would be
> > closest.
>
> Will look around. I could probably get the Souvenir stuff working out, it's
> just that it was getting in the way and decided to remove it in order to work
> faster.

OK.

> > I have some of the images already converted to PDF ... somewhere. I
> > was using a GhostScript script that converted our GIF files to PDF.
> > Many have never been converted, so you probably want to set something
> > up for yourself anyway.
>
> Conversion of images from GIF to EPS or PDF is rather easy (thanks to
> Imagemagick). I guess I didn't include it (now that I see that the there is a
> XSLT handle for the <illustration> class) because I did not use the proper
> paramters to say which illustrator's images to use. I guess that's what the
> '-PARAM use-illustrators \"$USE_ILLUSTRATORS\"' parameter was for, right?

Yep.

> > > You mean 01hh.xml (Freeway Warrior?)
> >
> > Actually:
> >
> > http://www.projectaon.org/test/es/xml/01hdlo.xml
>
> Ah. The Spanish translation, after sending you the PDF I did some small
> changes to be able to handle the Spanish XML file Raul sent me [0], since it 
> was
> not complete (the header sections, and rule sections, were missing) I used
> the english one, generated, and forwarded Raul a PDF copy of the Spanish
> translation:
>
> * using Babel - \usepackage[spanish]{babel}
> * setting the document size to A4
> * fixing the same stuff (twoside/oneside) of the English one
>
> PDF conversion from LaTeX worked like a charm, I didn't have any issue
> with accented characters.

Excellent.

--
Jon

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