Re: Translating the eps files in lispintro

[Tim Landscheidt]

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org> wrote:

>>> […]

>>> It would seem more practical to have a format that's a bit easier to edit 
>>> (SVG, if only because it supports unicode) and from there use conversion 
>>> tools to create the required formats:

>>> eps for TeX (DVI output)
>>> pdf/png/jpg (jpeg) for TeX (PDF output)
>>> png, jpg (jpeg), gif for HTML output (although the current output does not 
>>> use images but just plain text)
>>> eps, gif, jpeg (jpg), pdf, png, svg for DocBook output

>>> https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#Images

>>> Considering the needs of the lisp introduction, we could have svg for an 
>>> eventual DocBook output, png for the HTML and PDF output, eps for the DVI 
>>> output and we'd be all set.

>>> Or maybe the actual source for the EPS (and PDF) files found in the intro 
>>> is somewhere else? Are the files created from the texinfo source?

>> Looking at the images, it seems natural to write them in
>> groff/pic and then generate whatever.

> Do you have experience in generating images with non ascii text with groff?

> I just tried a simple tutorial and it did not come out well.

> The translation thread mentioned French, Chinese and Japanese.

I have never tried anything non-Latin-1.

Tim