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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Is it possible in DocBook?
On 4 Feb 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: >Roman Suzi <rnd@onego.ru> writes: > >> However, I have some questions I did not found good answers for in >> docs. The destination format is RTF (with TeX and HTML output also >> desirable). I have stylesheets-0.13rh-4.rpm installed (DocBook 3.1) >> >> 1. My book will be in Russian. Russian seem to be supported but when I >> tried lang="ru" in the chapter example - I do not see "Glava" written >> where it need to be. (de and fr are fine outputting "Kapitel and >> Chaptier"). > >Check the 'common/dbl1ru.ent' file -- I believe all the stuff there is >translated. If not, talk to Norm. But see below. Yes, it is. The problem is it doesn't get to the .tex file! >> How do I add russian text here conveniently? >> (not by Это - or is it the only way?) > >If you do it in XML, can't you use Unicode? Is that "convenient" ? Yes, I can translate to it easily. >> (If it is, I could write a simple convertor, but if it is possible to >> feed in koi8-r encoding - it would be great!) > >It should be possible to use koi8-r encoding directly in XML or SGML, >but I've never tried to do it, so I'm not sure how you slap around >jade or openjade to tell it about the encoding. In XML, can't the >top-level <?xml ..> processing instruction indicate the encoding? I >have DebianDOC/SGML documents in Russian which are in koi8-r encoding, >with stuff like this in it: > > <title>Установка Debian GNU/Linux &release; для &arch-title;</title> It is even readable here, in the mail :-) >It works for me. I'm use JadeTeX 3.20. You need the cyrillic stuff >installed, as well as TIPA: > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tipa/t3ptm.fd) > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2acmr.fd) > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd) > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty) > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1phv.fd) > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2acmss.fd) I have everythong but /tipa/. What is your version of tipa? Where can I get it? (I get 5 year old version of tipa from CTAN - but am not sure if it will do it. >> 2. Russian letters are somewhat incorrect (in jadeTeX version). The word >> "Test" when written in Russian (э instead of е is used to show >> that letter is wrong) consists from letters of different fonts. > >This is possible. Try with a newest JadeTeX. I read in there: > > \expandafter\def\csname Entiecy\endcsname{\cyrchar\cyre }% U0435% > >Is that incorrect? It looks right. >> 3. In my book I need xref capabilities like \pageref in LaTeX. I have not >> found them in the DocBook docs. (I need page references not just section >> references.) Is there any way to use them in RTF and TeX backends? > >I feel like I knew this and forgot it. I don't see any stock >customization parameter for this. TeX certainly does it. I wonder if RTF could contain pageref info intact. (When I look into RTF doc with refs - I see some "fields" inserted. I am not sure if jade can produce ones.) >It is definately doable with a DSSSL style customization, but I don't >have any examples offhand. You could ask on the DSSSL list. Of course, it is doable! But I am no expert in RTF. >> Or would you advice something else? For example, is there comparable in >> quality _freeware_ LaTeX -> RTF converter which could convert tables, >> cross-pagerefs? > >Dunno offhand. I think documenting technical stuff in DocBook makes >more sense since it's got more structure for this than LaTeX does. Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi -- Vote for my design: http://silvermouse.onego.ru/gray.php3?id=0018 _/ Russia _/ Karelia _/ Petrozavodsk _/ rnd@onego.ru _/ _/ Monday, February 05, 2001 _/ Powered by Linux RedHat 6.2 _/ _/ "Anything worth doing, is worth doing for a profit." _/
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