Re: Language Creation: The International Language Construction Bulletin (working title :)) )

En réponse à Tristan <zsau@...>:

>
> How are you converting the LaTeX source to a PDF? I'm pretty sure that
> dvipdfm and PDFLaTeX can make hyperlinks, can't remember how exactly.
> I'm pretty sure that at least one is used in conjunction with the url
> package. (I prefer dvipdfm, but I think that's because I was using an
> older version of PDFLaTeX and got into the dvipdfm-habit (and so my
> special package uses dvipdfm specials to do things).)
>
I'd rather use them too (I have both), but they don't work that well. For
instance, dvipdfm doesn't work with the Astou grammar I'm currently writing,
and PDFLaTeX does work but messes up with the IPA characters. So I use PDF995,
which works perfectly from any file format, make good looking PDFs and includes
the fonts correctly :) . But I'm not sure whether it can handle links, and
how...

>
> Consider this a request. Although I can't promise an article in
> return.
> I'm not very good at writing stuff (or at least, I don't consider
> myself
> good at writing stuff. When provided with a topic, I can come up with
> a
> good short story when I have to).
>
Noted! I haven't begun writing it, but when it's done you'll be the first to
receive it (note that you may need a few other packages to use it, since it'll
probably include packages like e.g. TIPA for IPA characters).

>
> If you want my help with some formatting stuff, I've fiddled around
> writing a draft for a conlang grammar that really sucks at this stage.
> But the layout's cool. IMHO.
>
Just send me the layout then, thanks! I'll see what I can do with it :)) .

>
> I realise I'm not one of the people, and I realise that this isn't a
> private email, but I can help with orthographic and typographic
> correction in LaTeX and HTML.
>
Duly noted :) . You're added to the Conlang Journal group :)) .

> BTW: Have you heard of the Omega project? It might come in handy with
> this project. It's basically adding Unicode+ (a custom superset of
> Unicode that includes extra formatting characters) support to TeX (and
> Lambda which is Omega+LaTeX). It's homepage is
> http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au:8080/. Depending on what TeX distribution
> you're using, you might already have Omega in it. If you don't, it
> might
> be a bit tricky getting it working. There's not much good
> documentation
> at Omega website, but there is a mailing list
> (omega@omega.cse.unsw.edu.au). I might be able to help with it if you
> want to use it, but I've only tinkered a bit in that area.
>
Well, I have indeed Omega installed (my installation is the latest full MikTeX
installation), but I've looked at it a little and didn't understand anything
about how it works, nor how compatible it is with normal LaTeX2e :(( . So right
now I don't know what to do with it.

Christophe.

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