Re: Translating the eps files in lispintro

[Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>]

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org> wrote:

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>>> It would seem more practical to have a format that's a bit easier to edit (SVG, if only because it supports unicode) and from there use conversion tools to create the required formats:

>>> eps for TeX (DVI output)
>>> pdf/png/jpg (jpeg) for TeX (PDF output)
>>> png, jpg (jpeg), gif for HTML output (although the current output does not use images but just plain text)
>>> eps, gif, jpeg (jpg), pdf, png, svg for DocBook output

>>> https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#Images

>>> Considering the needs of the lisp introduction, we could have svg for an eventual DocBook output, png for the HTML and PDF output, eps for the DVI output and we'd be all set.

>>> Or maybe the actual source for the EPS (and PDF) files found in the intro is somewhere else? Are the files created from the texinfo source?

>> Looking at the images, it seems natural to write them in
>> groff/pic and then generate whatever.

> Do you have experience in generating images with non ascii text with groff?

> I just tried a simple tutorial and it did not come out well.

> The translation thread mentioned French, Chinese and Japanese.

I have never tried anything non-Latin-1.

Tim