BibTeX output to XML

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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Dienstag, November 24th, 2009

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Database Publishing with LaTeX and hyperref

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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Index Processing – the Hard Way

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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Typesetting a Dictionary with LaTeX

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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Creating Glyphs

Dienstag, März 10th, 2009

For a dictionary project we used lots of phonetic glyphs. The most of them can be made from an ordinary font just by transforming (rotating, mirroring) a glyph or attach an accent to it. There is also the "ezh" character, and unfortunately the Minion fonts used didn't have it, but ...

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Database Publishing with ConTeXt

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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Ein schönes Buch ist fertig

Freitag, Oktober 10th, 2008

Pünktlich zur Frankfurter Buchmesse ist ein Projekt fertig geworden, das fast das ganze Spektrum unserer Verlagsdienstleistungen abgedeckt und vor allem ein schönes, durchaus (typografisch) sehenswertes Ergebnis geliefert hat. Unsere Aufgaben umfassten: Scannen und OCR der alten Buchvorlage Texterfassung (Deutsch/Altgriechisch) und -abgleich, logische Auszeichnung der Elemente Umsetzung der Verlagsvorgaben zum Layout Programmierung der Strukturelemente (z.B. ...

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