Subject: Re: (dsssl) DSSSL primer? From: Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:53:46 +0100 |
janusz.prusaczyk@xxxxxx wrote at 6 Sep 2001 11:22:31 +0200: > I did try to use OpenJade before with some simple files, with some success. > But that time my files were in different Windows encodings and I did not > know how to make Jade accept them, so I used XSL. > > Yesterday I downloaded HyBrick and I thought it is good opportunity to learn AFAIK, HyBrick is based on Jade, so you're still using Jade, just an earlier version than OpenJade. > more about DSSSL. So I have a few questions: > > 1. Is there some kind of primer/handbook/specification of DSSSL > available for downloading? See http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/dsssl.html for the best list of DSSSL material that I know of. > 2. Now all my files are in UTF-8 encoding. Tony Graham explains that > you need to set system > variable SP_ENCODING to UTF-8 to process such files. Anything else > one should know about > working with such encoded files? Not to my knowledge. > 3. I am using different scripts, mostly Chinese, some Hebrew and > Arabic. Is it any problem? > (I mean having the glyphs correctly displayed, and right to left > direction handling. > Target format will be RTF and MIF.) That probably depends on your version of Word or FrameMaker. The example in "Unicode: A Primer" includes Japanese, Cyrillic, and Hebrew. The Hebrew in the example did not appear in the correct visual order when I tried it with Word 97. It's possible that Word 2000 does a better job (but that would be a task for a second edition). > 4. I am going to use some home made true type fonts encoded in user > area of unicode (it is > going to be cuneiform)? Will Jade process it? Try them and see. > 5. Is DSSSL offering means of typesetting in top-to-bottom direction? > (Mongolian in Uighur > script) Or maybe combining glyphs in groups (Something like egyptian > hieroglyphs - they > are written from right to left, or from left to right, but some of > them are placed over > others, sometimes glyphs cross each other)? I know this is stupid > question, as RTF or MIF > do not allow such things, (do they? But for example TeX, postscript > do allow this.) but There's no point comparing DSSSL and PostScript. > maybe somebody who has something wise to tell on this subject will > use this question as > pretext. DSSSL? yes. Jade/HyBrick/OpenJade? no. DSSSL was designed to support all manner of writing directions, but that doesn't mean that Jade implements them, especially since Jade's backends don't necessarily support them. Regards, Tony Graham ------------------------------------------------------------------------ XML Technology Center - Dublin mailto:tony.graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd Phone: +353 1 8199708 Hamilton House, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3 x(70)19708 DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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