You wrote: > Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:11:13 +0100 > From: Djihed Afifi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: LaTex experts? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hello, > > As you have seen, I have some scripts that convert our dictionary > entries in the wiki to a .pdf that is suitable for printing. See > the .pdf here: > http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Download_technical_dictionary
This looks very nice, but I have some suggestions as to the format. Please contact me by private EMail, and let me see the script that builds the LaTeX file. I consider myself a TeX (and LaTeX) expert, and I am able to read Perl. > The tex source is available here: > http://arabeyes.org/~djihed/techdict.tex It compiles perfectly here. Which version of ArabTeX did you use? The black blobs on page 'A' come from illegal input to ArabTeX :-( Which was the original Arabic encoding before running the script? > As you can see it is somewhat ugly, it makes use of Arabtex (i can give > that up if needed). I'd like to see some help in designing a compact tex > format for the dictionary. What about a two column format? > Any help is greatly appreciated. Pointers and "look at this" advice is > also welcome. > > Djihed I am willing to help (and also to fix ArabTeX whenever necessary :-). The latter might take some time: I am usually far from office, after retirement, and possibly busy; but this is a long time project, and worth the effort :-) Klaus (aka Mr ArabTeX :-) -- Prof. Dr. Klaus Lagally | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Institut fuer Formale | http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ ... Methoden der Informatik| ... fmi/bs/people/lagally.htm Abteilung Betriebsoftware| Tel. +49-711-7816392 |Zeige mir deine Uhr, Universitaetsstrasse 38 | FAX +49-711-7816370 | und ich sage dir, 70569 Stuttgart, GERMANY | | wie spaet es ist. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
