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Re: Translating the eps files in lispintro


From: Jean-Christophe Helary
Subject: Re: Translating the eps files in lispintro
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 13:20:34 +0000


> On Jan 22, 2024, at 17:57, Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> 
> 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.



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