Fwd: Issues with db2latex

Hi everyone,

This message is for <[email protected]>. (I wasn't able to send a
direct e-mail reply to this person's off-list e-mail because his/her
mail server was having trouble resolving DNS.) I shall put some of these
answers into the FAQ. We may also be making a 0.8 'alpha' release of
DB2LaTeX so that 0.7 doesn't get used any more.

----- Forwarded message from James Devenish <[email protected]> -----
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:43:18 +0800
From: James Devenish <[email protected]>
To: ?ncor Gonz?lez Sosa <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Issues with db2latex
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

Hi,

Before we start: I recommend using the latest DB2LaTeX "snapshot":
<http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/snapshot/> instead of using DB2LaTeX
v0.7.

In message <[email protected]>
on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:19:17AM +0000, ?ncor Gonz?lez Sosa wrote:
> * Localization:

Localisation is being overhauled for the next release, so that might
help you out in future. However, note that there are two sources of
localisation:

 - XSL stylesheets
 - LaTeX packages

When you typeset with DB2LaTeX, some localisations will come from
DB2LaTeX and some will come from LaTeX itself.

> I'm spanish and I get things like "Section 1" (instead 
> of (Secci?n 1) in my spanish document. However, I get "figura 1" exactly 
> as I expected (I know you are working on localization).

The first thing I would suggest is making sure that you have marked up
your XML document. E.g. use <book xml:lang="es"> rather than <book>. If
you have already done this, perhaps you need to set a variable such as
$latex.babel.language or $latex.language.option. Ramon has used DB2LaTeX
with Spanish and French in the past, so he might be able to help out if
my instructions do not work.

> * accents and special chars didn't work (for example &euro; converts to 
> its character entity &#8364; but latex doesn't parse that. Other accents
> work only if they are in the latin1 character set and you load the
> appropriate package)

This is due to a "conflict" between XML and LaTeX. It cannot be overcome
with XSLT version 1.0 (which is what DB2LaTeX is written in). There are
a few workarounds. I am not sure how the Euro symbol is normally handled
in LaTeX. If you know, please let me know.

> * this input:
[...]
>  \item[\hypertarget{glos_palabra1}{Palabra 1}]
>  Definition
>  Ver tambi?n &#8220;\hyperlink{glos_palabra2}{Segunda palabra}&#8221;.
>  ...
> 
> As you can see, localization works perfectly ("Ver tambi?n") but the 
> quotation marks are wrongly especified as &#8220 and &#8221 instead of 
> ``and '' (Well, this is a special ocurrence of the above problem).

I'm don't know about this. If you try using a Snapshot and specifying
lang="es", does that help?

> * <imagedata scale="0.5" fileref="screen.png" format="png"/>

You should use scale="50", because the scale is a "percentage".
See DocBook: <http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/imagedata.html>.

> * <screen>
> 
> became
> 
> \begin{Verbatim} \end{Verbatim}
> 
> take note of the uppercase V

That is correct. <screen> is very difficult in LaTeX. It requires
$latex.use.fancyvrb='1' (the default setting). I'm not sure why
this doesn't work for you. If you are using a snapshot, let me
know.

> * This text:
> <para>
[...]
> Note the extre linebreaks. In docbook they are irrelevant and everything
> is one paragraph. In LaTeX a white line means a paragraph break so this
> text become two independent paragraphs.

I fixed this a while ago (in the snapshots).

> PS.- Por tu nombre deduzco que debes hablas espa?ol perfectamente, con 
> lo que mi esfuerzo para escribir todo este correo en ingl?s puede haber 
> sido absurdo. Si hay cualquier parte que no entiendas (mi ingl?s es 
> realmente nefasto), escr?beme y te lo explicar? en espa?ol.

I am too ignorant to know what you are saying, but I'm sure it means
something to Ramon :-)


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