RE: Patch to support printout internationalization

[Roland Winkler]

On Wed Jun 8 2016 Vincent Belaïche wrote:
> My contribution does not change this approach. Just it splits the existing
> styles files in a way that allows more easilly to select what language you 
> want
> to format the address book.
> 
> In other words all the macros that are language specific (e.g.\today) are
> placed in a separate .tex file.
> 
> I had also to modify bbdb-print.tex in order to remove these
> macros from there, and bbdb-print.el so that the new language
> specific .tex file is in the include-file alist cell.

I think that using TeX (instead of LaTeX) is really an outdated
approach for printing bbdb records.  Modern LaTeX has lots of fancy
packages to support, for example, language-specific stuff.
Therefore, a re-write of bbdb-print should provide a way to exploit
these LaTeX features effectively (instead of reinventing the wheel
by defining \today for different languages / different tastes).

Also, it should be possible to include bbdb records in LaTeX
documents using something like

\begin{bbdbrecord}
...
\end{bbdbrecord}

with a (customizable) LaTeX environment bbdbrecord that knows how to print
a bbdb record.

Roland

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RE: Patch to support printout internationalization

[Vincent Belaïche]

Dear Roland,


Answering to myself, in order to note two limitations in the current code 
w.r.t. to the possibility to replace the current tex code by XeLaTeX or LaTeX 
code:


1) Lisp makes some direct code generation in bbdb-print.el like this


  (dolist (dim '(hsize vsize hoffset voffset))
(if (setq tmp (cdr (assoc dim alist)))
(insert (format "\\%s=%s\n" dim tmp


it should be possible to replace (format "\\%s=%s\n" dim tmp) by something 
else, for instance


   (format "\\PassOptionsToClass{%s=%s}{bbdb}\n" dim tmp)


if ever somebody makes some bbdb class to do same job. So the code should be:


  (dolist (dim '(hsize vsize hoffset voffset))
(if (setq tmp (cdr (assoc dim alist)))
(insert (funcall bbdb-format-page-layout-fun dim tmp


with bbdb-format-page-layout-fun a new defcustom.



2) final message


   "Process this file with TeX (not LaTeX)"


   should also be a defcustom, rather than wired in the code.



   Vincent.


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RE: Patch to support printout internationalization

[Vincent Belaïche]

Dear Roland,


My contribution does not change this approach. Just it splits the existing 
styles files in a way that allows more easilly to select what language you want 
to format the address book.

In other words all the macros that are language specific (e.g.\today) are 
placed in a separate .tex file.

I had also to modify bbdb-print.tex in order to remove these macros from there, 
and bbdb-print.el so that the new language specific .tex file is in the 
include-file alist cell.


BR,

   Vincent.


De : Roland Winkler <wink...@gnu.org>
Envoyé : mercredi 8 juin 2016 13:55:32
À : Vincent Belaïche
Cc : BBDB info list
Objet : Re: Patch to support printout internationalization

On Tue Jun 7 2016 Vincent Belaïche wrote:
> Here is attached a patch for printout to be in another language
> than English.
>
> BTW, the 'P' keymap is no longer active for bbdb-print. Any plan
> to resurrect it or make some other mapping ?

I have a (so far incomplete) re-write of bbdb-print based on the
idea that the bbdb records should be written to a (La)TeX file using
some generic LaTeX commands for the fields of each record (like
\name{first}{last}, \phone{label}{number}, etc)

Then one can more easily define new LaTeX classes (or even style
files to be used with any other LaTeX class files) which (re)define
these LaTeX commands.

I hope I can complete this not too far in the future.

Roland
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Re: Patch to support printout internationalization

[Roland Winkler]

On Tue Jun 7 2016 Vincent Belaïche wrote:
> Here is attached a patch for printout to be in another language
> than English.
> 
> BTW, the 'P' keymap is no longer active for bbdb-print. Any plan
> to resurrect it or make some other mapping ?

I have a (so far incomplete) re-write of bbdb-print based on the
idea that the bbdb records should be written to a (La)TeX file using
some generic LaTeX commands for the fields of each record (like
\name{first}{last}, \phone{label}{number}, etc)

Then one can more easily define new LaTeX classes (or even style
files to be used with any other LaTeX class files) which (re)define
these LaTeX commands.

I hope I can complete this not too far in the future.

Roland

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Patch to support printout internationalization

[Vincent Belaïche]

Dear Roland et al.,

Here is attached a patch for printout to be in another language than English.

BTW, the 'P' keymap is no longer active for bbdb-print. Any plan to resurrect 
it or make some other mapping ?


VBR,
   Vincent.





%%% bbdb-english.tex - for formatting address lists.

%%% Authors: Vincent Belaïche 
%%% Copyright (C) 2016 Vincent Belaïche
%%% Version: 

%%% English Locale for printing address list.

%%% For instructions on using this format file with BBDB, see bbdb-print.el
%%% which should have come bundled with this file.  The complete bbdb-print
%%% package is also available via anonymous ftp at:
%%% /cs.rochester.edu:/pub/u/boris/bbdb-print.tar.gz

%%% This file is part of the bbdb-print extensions to the Insidious
%%% Big Brother Database, which is for use with GNU Emacs.
%%%
%%% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
%%% modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
%%% published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or
%%% (at your option) any later version.
%%%
%%% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
%%% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
%%% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
%%% General Public License for more details.
%%%
%%% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
%%% along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
%%% the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


\def\printed#1{Printed #1}
\def\today{\number\day\space
\ifcase\month\or Jan\or Feb\or Mar\or Apr \or May\or June\or
Jul\or Aug\or Sept\or Oct\or Nov\or Dec\fi
\space\number\year}
\def\phonelabel{}
%%% bbdb-french.tex - for formatting address lists.

%%% Authors: Vincent Belaïche 
%%% Copyright (C) 2016 Vincent Belaïche
%%% Version: 

%%% French Locale for printing address list.

%%% For instructions on using this format file with BBDB, see bbdb-print.el
%%% which should have come bundled with this file.  The complete bbdb-print
%%% package is also available via anonymous ftp at:
%%% /cs.rochester.edu:/pub/u/boris/bbdb-print.tar.gz

%%% This file is part of the bbdb-print extensions to the Insidious
%%% Big Brother Database, which is for use with GNU Emacs.
%%%
%%% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
%%% modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
%%% published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or
%%% (at your option) any later version.
%%%
%%% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
%%% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
%%% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
%%% General Public License for more details.
%%%
%%% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
%%% along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
%%% the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


\def\printed#1{Imprim\'e le #1}
\def\today{\number\day\space
\ifcase\month\or Jan\or F\'ev\or Mar\or Avr \or Mai\or Juin\or
Juil\or Ao\^ut\or Sept\or Oct\or Nov\or D\'ec\fi
\space\number\year}
\def\mapphonelabel#1#2{\expandafter\def\csname phonelabel/#1\endcsname{#2}}
\mapphonelabel{cell}{mob.}
\mapphonelabel{home}{dom.}
\mapphonelabel{work}{bur.}
\mapphonelabel{other}{autre}
\def\phonelabel#1:{%
  \expandafter\let\expandafter\temp\csname phonelabel/#1\endcsname
  \ifx\temp\relax
 #1~:%
  \else
\temp~:%
  \fi
}
\let\setsize\setpssize


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