"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes:
> On Sat Aug 30 2014 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> I've never even gotten bbdb-print to work, it's always complained
>> about undefined control sequences or something.
>
> The lisp code should work fine. I made sure that bbdb-print-record
> does not fail in the rare case that the value of an xfield is a
> sexp. Also, bbdb-print now issues a message at the end that the
> resulting file should be processed with tex, but not with latex
> (till someone writes a LaTeX template).
Very good!
>> The tex code is very old, and doesn't make any provisions for
>> non-latin characters. Probably the easiest stop-gap would be to
>> change bbdb-print-prolog and bbdb-print-epilog to wrap the whole
>> thing in latex statements or what have you, either make use of
>> babel, or xelatex. I don't know if that would be enough to do the
>> trick, but if it worked it would be the simplest solution.
>
> The current plain TeX templates work well for me with latin utf8
> characters, but they fail with, say, japanese characters (which
> happen to be the only non-latin characters in my BBDB).
with tex or with xetex?
> It would be nice if the old plain TeX templates get replaced by some
> LaTeX templates that should make the code more robust and matching
> what most people use nowadays. -- Volunteers welcome! (Please
> assign the copyright for such a project to the FSF. Copyright is
> another reason to get rid of the old TeX files.)
For you information: The documentation in bbdb-print.el is also partly
outdated.
;;; In the *BBDB* buffer, type P to convert the listing to TeX
;;; format. It will prompt you for a filename. Then run TeX on that
;;; file and print it out.
Now we have:
P runs the command bbdb-prev-field, which is an interactive compiled
Lisp function in `bbdb.el'.
Thanks
Dieter
>
>
> 2014-08-30 Roland Winkler <wink...@gnu.org>
> * lisp/bbdb-print.el (bbdb-print-require): Improve docstring.
>
> 2014-08-30 Roland Winkler <wink...@gnu.org>
> * lisp/bbdb-print.el (bbdb-print): Clarify prompt for file name.
> Issue message on what to do with TeX file.
>
> 2014-08-30 Roland Winkler <wink...@gnu.org>
> * lisp/bbdb-print.el (bbdb-print-record): Handle xfields the value
> of which are sexps.
>
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