Archive for the ‘Database Publishing’ Category
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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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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Sonntag, Oktober 19th, 2008
After describing the publisher's demands on typesetting list entries in a previous article, here comes the TeX-code that does the job. It is really plain TeX, because the whole catalogue is set with ConTeXt, and since I'm not familiar with that package, all my macros had to be done on ...
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Freitag, Oktober 3rd, 2008
Typesetting index or other kind of lists and registers is an typical task for database publishing. An entry usually consists of a name and a number part conected with a dotted line. Typesetting this is quite simple:
But sometimes the name can be longer and don't fit on the line. ...
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