| Title: | Online Bookbuilding |
| Notice: | This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3. |
| Moderator: | VAXUUM::UTT |
| Created: | Fri Aug 12 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jul 15 1991 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 440 |
| Total number of notes: | 2134 |
Hello, We publish various research reports or technical notes with TEX or Latex languages. This allow to create large documents, with unicity of style, including postscript files for figures or illustrations. It is not a Wysiwyg Publishing systems, but has to be compiled as Vax-document to produce dvi files and postscripts We would like to export theses (tex) files to a bookreader format. Is any tool convenient for this export, and does it allows to keep the original style and layout to produce .decw_book formats ? Jean-Christophe Patat decprl::librarian
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| 430.1 | no | VAXUUM::UTT | Mary Utt | Tue May 28 1991 08:00 | 12 |
To my knowledge (which is pretty good), there is no way to convert
either plain TeX or LaTex files to .DECW$BOOK files. Although VAX
DOCUMENT uses TeX to format text, it uses a special set of macros to do
so. These macros must be present in the source .tex file; the version
of TeX you are using must know how to process them; and then you need
a dvi-to-Bookreader converter.
Currently, only VAX DOCUMENT and DECwrite products generate .DECW$BOOK
files. Internally, there are also versions of Interleaf and ditroff
that generate .DECW$BOOK files.
Mary
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| 430.2 | Slim chance of re-def'ing LaTeX macros into DECTeX macros | IJSAPL::KLERK | I wrote ISBN 1-55558-067-X | Tue May 28 1991 11:18 | 7 |
I haven't tried this (the only LaTeX I encountered in the recent years is the type that advertise as "Put a Jiffy around your St..."), but if you've used plain LaTeX commands perhaps you can redefine them into DECTeX type macros. I envision a lot of work though. Theo | |||||