Hoi Frans, On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:01:06PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:46:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Thursday 16 September 2004 13:30, Joost van Baal wrote: > > > I've typeset the installer manual in PostScript and PDF, since I like to > > > read big documents like this one from paper. This required some > > > hacking. It'd be cool if a note on how to do this (like this bugreport) > > > was shipped with the sources. Or perhaps you'd like to ship a PDF with > > > the .deb itself. Anyway, this is what I did: > > > > Thank you very much for working on this and providing us with a way to > > generate a PS/PDF version of the manual using free tools. > > Beware: my patch cripples the table in 2.1.1 "Supported Architectures". Will look into that today. <snip> > > I have one question for you. > > Do you have any idea if it will be possible to use your method for other > > languages than English? I'm thinking especially of Japanese, and to a > > lesser degree Russian, Czech and Greek because of the different character > > sets. > > O, I've no experience typesetting non-european documents... I've just successfully generated an install.ru.profiled.ps, which looks pretty good. I've ran: joostvb@nagy:~/sv...staller/doc/manual/build% ./buildone.sh i386 ru joostvb@nagy:~/sv...staller/doc/manual/build% cp install.ru.profiled.xml \ install.ru.profiled.dbx joostvb@nagy:~/sv...staller/doc/manual/build% sed -i \ 's/<entry\/>/<entry><\/entry>/; s/<para\/>/<\/para><para>/' install.ru.profiled.dbx joostvb@nagy:~/sv...staller/doc/manual/build% make -f \ /usr/share/caspar/mk/docbook.mk install.ru.profiled.ps Japanese seems to work fine too, just make sure no utf-8 style japanese characters are left in the input file, but all are converted to things like も . I've seen "raw" japanese in commented-out sections, you have to completely remove these before feeding to jade. Groeten, Joost
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