17 May
2005
17 May
'05
8:47 p.m.
Robert Shimmin wrote:
If I recall correctly, this has been done up to now by converting TEI to TeX (a good feature, in any case), and then using other people's software to do TeX to PDF. For my edification, do the troubles show up in the conversion to TeX, or the second conversion to PDF?
The problem is that many features of TEI are not one-to-one mappable onto other formats. The easiest format to map is HTML. TXT (nroff) and PDF (TeX) are much harder. In TXT you can often sneak by because its a "Low-Fidelity" format. PDF is a very "High-Fidelity" format where every quirk shows up mercilessly. "Other people's software" is pdflatex. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org