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Re: [docbook-apps] RTL in markup/docbook/??
- From: Michael Wiedmann <mw at miwie dot in-berlin dot de>
- To: Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:26:22 +0200
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] RTL in markup/docbook/??
- References: <20040608074202.GB10550@arabeyes.org>
Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir@arabeyes.org> wrote:
> I am trying (helplessly) to figure out how to use DocBook/XML to produce
> Arabic documentation. This is probably not the first time I approach
> this issue, but I am going at it again.
..
> 2. None of the XSL-Fo's I know of (we use Apache's FOP [2]) can handle
> Arabic text (not the UTF-8 nor the bidi mode).
If you have some experience with LaTeX you should consider using the DB2LaTeX
XSL stylesheets [1] to generate PDF output. You might have to use ArabTeX [2]
(maybe there are other (La)TeX base solutions to produce Arab output).
[1] http://db2latex.sourceforge.net
[2] http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ifi/bs/research/arab.html
or better search on CTAN
Michael
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