Re: Linebreaks in paragraphs and character entities

Hi,

In message <[email protected]>
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:13:23PM +0100, bvh wrote:
> 1. Use of character entities
[...]
> Entity references in the latin1 set like (&agrave; etc) are converted to
> latin1 encoding by db2latex

It's the way XML works :-/

> Character entities like &#8364; (I believe this to be the euro symbol) are
> left alone by db2latex. Again the problem is that (my installation of) LaTeX
> doesn't know how to handle these. What should I do to get that working?

There are several solutions provided by DB2LaTeX. You will need to turn
these features on, though. I personally go for Unicode handling. This
means that I have install the 'ucs' ('unicode') LaTeX package and then
use the following variables in my XSL files:

<xsl:output encoding="UTF-8"/>
<xsl:variable name="latex.inputenc">utf8</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="latex.use.ucs">1</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="latex.ucs.options">postscript</xsl:variable>

Some examples are available in the snapshot 'samples' tarball or can be
viewed on the web:
<http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/db2latex/db2latex/xsl/sample/test_entities/>.

> 2. Line breaks in paragraphs
[...]
> <para>
> This is
> 
> one paragraph
> </para>
[...]
> However when I convert to LaTeX with db2latex the single white line is
> still there and becomes a hard line break in the typeset document.

This doesn't happen to me. Maybe I worked around it in CVS. Could you
try a snapshot? <http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/snapshot/> I tried
to track down where this was fixed, but I couldn't find it. Confusing.

> 3. We have documents where the scaling factor for the imagedata has a fraction.
> This didn't work with db2latex. However when rereading the docbook specification
> before posting I saw that the scaling factor must be an integer so I'll have
> to change those sources then.

Yep, the @scale attribute is a percentage (0--100). See also
<http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/reference/rn30re79.html>.




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