Re: Problems with PDF creation
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> "W.Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>> only a short message, because I'm on the way to my dentist.
>> The problems are more related to multi-language/multi-font
>> support than UTF-8, I suppose.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 05:53:10PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote
>>> As one of the teTeX maintainers, I'm interested to hear about problems
>>> you have with utf-8, and I'm also willing to help. Can you give me a
>>> hint were I can read about the problems you encoutered?
>>
>> I attached the dev-ref in DocBook XML to #374220(*). If you run
>> dblatex over it, it will work for English, but fail for French
>> and Japanese.
>
> Yes, it fails for French, I am currently investigating this.
That's simply bug #374215. I've submitted a possible solution to the
bug and also a bugreport against babel.
> But this
> has nothing to do with the original issue that was discussed on
> debian-devel and where I was told to ask you about those problems you
> had: It will fail regardless whether you generate PDF or dvi/PS.
Well, I started looking into this because of the claim in -devel that
generating PDF is hard, and I thought this was about specific problems
with pdfTeX or the way teTeX-3.0 uses it. It turned out that it just
means that dblatex/docbook/whatever is immature; I "had to" submit three
bugs against dblatex before I could even start investigating, one of
which is upstream-related and shows their small understanding of current
LaTeX. I won't go deeper into this, since my primary concern are teTeX
and TeXLive themselves.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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