Re: XYWRITE digest 2854

[peregrine@xxxxxxxx]

 Sorry this is unresponsive to your immediate question, but HTML/XHTML won't let you down if you specify the language correctly, Patricia.



This story about HTML internationalization, just out this week, may be of interest to you:

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/richard_ishida/



Assuming XHTML, here is how you would start out if your whole document were to be served up in German:




   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">;

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">;



  

  

  ... With "de" signifying "Deutsch" of course. If you were serving up English, that segment would instead be



... xml:lang="en" lang="en" ...



Note that Unicode (utf-8) is used here to take advantage of its support for umlauts and all that other good stuff. Many pages in English use ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1) instead. Unicode has all the same characters and then some, so it will be around long after the older standard fades away.



You can change languages (and back, if needed) anywhere in a document. Indicating that you've done so is supposed to make it easier to parse and display correctly. I haven't done that myself, so I can't give you the details, but the documentation is good at the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) website. The various browsers all do well with this too, I believe.



I can think of other things that might deter you from converting to HTML, but it seems to me it would be a good medium for what you have in mind. In any event, maybe this information will be useful to you sometime.





Jeff 
 

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        XYWRITE Digest 2854


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 1) PDF Links possible?
  by "Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx







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Is there some way, in preparing a document for subsequent conversion
to PDF (using, of course, XY2PDF) to embed some code analogous to an
HTML XREF one, so that a file so referenced, if in the same directory
or on the same disk as the PDF, could be opened when the code is
clicked on? For example, say FAMHIST.txt (and then famhist.pdf) says,
"here is a picture of our grandfather..." could one then have
grvater.tif somehow set up so that clicking on that would cause
Windows or the Mac to open the file with the associated .tif viewer? I
could, of course, convert the whole thing to HTML, but I'd rather not,
esp. as there are going to be a lot of odd accents. (In fact, I'm
thinking I may have to bite the bullet and try ANSIFIED xy.)
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Patricia M. Godfrey
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