Archive for the ‘Text Processing’ Category
Donnerstag, März 11th, 2010
Publishing online BibTeX references is not just matter of converting a .bib
file to XML/HTML. If there is a print (PDF) edition, two very important items
should be the same in both print and online versions:
same entries
same sorting
Further editing of the online references includes for example
abreviation of the author/editor names
inclundig and formatting ...
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Montag, November 23rd, 2009
Die automatische Verwendung von Ligaturen ist in den gängigen DTP-Programmen, dank OpenType, eine Frage des Häkchen-Setzens geworden. Demzufolge gibt es neuerdings kaum ein Druckwerk, das ohne dieses "coole Feature" auskommt.
Der Haken an der Sache mit dem Häkchen liegt aber in der deutschen Rechtschreibung. Denn sie bestimmt, kurz gesagt, ...
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Dienstag, Juli 28th, 2009
We had to produce a book catalogue from publisher's data. The layout was also predefined. We got a Word file with fields-like data:
#001 Springer, Anne; Münch, Karsten; Munz, Dietrich (Hg.)
#002 Sexualitäten
#003 Eine Publikation der DGPT
#004
#005 Bestellnr.: 854 #006 ISBN 978-3-89806-854-3
#007 2008 #006 455 Seiten #006 Gebunden
#008 ? (D) 39,90
#009 Die ...
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Freitag, Juli 17th, 2009
We had a book to set from a translated original. The index entries were taken also from the first book, translated and put in a list. So, in the first preview of the new book we set the index list as enumerate and asked the lector to mark the text ...
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Freitag, Juli 10th, 2009
As I mentioned in the previous post, we typesetted recently a german-albanian dictionary. It is an easy job with LaTeX. The most interestings and challenging points were:
create new phonetic glyphs from the base font
create albanian hyphenation patterns based on the turkish ones with some additions like not to break ...
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Mittwoch, Dezember 24th, 2008
The new catalogues arrived last week. More than 3000 pages from ca. 35 MB textual data typesetted with ConTeXt . Only the volume with the index (discussed here and here) is done fully automatically. The other three volumes required sometimes manual placement adjustment of the ads.
A sample spread ...
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Donnerstag, September 25th, 2008
I had to comare two copyedited OCR-files. I tried first W*rd's compare function but it was almost useless. After convertig the basic formating to a simple markup, I exported the two files to plain text and compared them in Emacs using ediff. Working with ediff is quick and easy. I ...
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