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Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada
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Le Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:13:50 +0100, Elias Salom=C3=A3o Helou Neto  =

<eshneto@gmail.com> a =C3=A9crit:
> This one is hard with TeX. Still, there seems to be some recent
> advances, I just don't recall the TeX variant that tries to tackle the=

> issue.
This is the big one which weighted 1GB (ouch). Forget the name too, I ma=
rk  =

this topic and will e-mail you if ever I get this name back.

> Do you mean ligatures? This is perfectly possible. Otherwise, please
> explain better what you mean.
This is indeed related to ligature and is a kind of ligature, while more=
  =

complex. With some language, the shape of a letter totally change  =

depending on its context. The most common example is Arabic. Unicode has=
  =

defined Arabic Presentation Forms for that purpose (Form-A and Form-B). =
 =

You may find it here:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/
in =E2=80=9CMiddle Eastern Scripts=E2=80=9D

Some examples here (one of my own site, french, but you can still look a=
t  =

the table at the end of the page):
http://www.les-ziboux.rasama.org/ecriture-arabe-cursive.html


> OTOH this may not be true even if modifications are required. For
> example, I may have lost it, but was there any agreement on how to go
> from XML to PDF?
Yes, there is a common one already mentioned here, which is XSL-FO. Two =
of  =

the most famous way to turn an XML document into another are: XSL (mainl=
y  =

for XML -> XML and XML -> HTML) and XSL-FO (mainly for XML -> PDF). XSL =
is  =

for transformation of a markups document into another markups document, =
 =

and XSL-FO is transformation of a markups document into a representation=
  =

on a render device (screen, PDF, etc). This can be compared to what CSS =
is  =

to HTML (a simplified view).

Feel free to e-mail me if you need more details (as I am jobless, I am  =

also available for services in this area, if ever you need).


-- =

Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es=
t pas pour  =

les chiens.

=E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]