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From: <tre...@gm...> - 2008-06-22 13:32:16
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Has anyone got Unicode box art working in a reST to PDF toolchain?
Because ICBF adding diagram support to my document preparation
toolchain, I drew this network diagram as "ascii" art, which I include
in my reST source document as a literal block::
PPPoE link (to Internet)
│
│ Potential second PPPoE link (to Internet)
│ │
┌─┴──┴─────────┐
│Foo ├──┬──┬─── DMZ (123.4.45670/24)
└─┬──┬──┬──────┘ │ [customer DMZ servers]
│ │ │ ┌┴───────────────┐
│ │ │ │Foo │
│ │ │ └────────────────┘
│ │ │
│ │ └┬─── Test (NATted 192.168.235.0/24)
│ │ [engineer test servers]
│ │
│ └┬─── Wireless
│ [engineer laptops]
│
└┬──┬─── Office (NATted 192.168.155.0/24)
│ [engineer workstations]
┌┴──────────────┐
│Foo │
└───────────────┘
I used Unicode box drawing characters because they look better and are
less ambiguous (true ascii art only has + as a connector, whereas
Unicode has several "T" and corner connectors).
This renders nicely to HTML (using -o utf-8:strict), but neither
rst2latex nor rst2newlatex produce useful PDFs -- the former crashes
pdflatex, and the latter generates a PDF with "escaped" gibberish
(e.g. âŤĆ) in the literal block insted of the box art.
I tried adding \include{usc} after the inputenc line (of rst2latex's
output), but this only succeeded in generating a PDF with [U+2502]-style
escaped gibberish.
Before I spend any more time grovelling through the TeX generated by
docutils, I thought I'd ask: has anyone got Unicode box art working in a
reST to PDF toolchain? If so, how?
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From: G. M. <mi...@us...> - 2008-06-23 08:48:28
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On 22.06.08, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Before I spend any more time grovelling through the TeX generated by
> docutils, I thought I'd ask: has anyone got Unicode box art working in a
> reST to PDF toolchain?
Yes.
> If so, how?
* generate LaTeX code with --output-encoding=utf-8:strict.
* In the latex file, edit the preamble to load "ucs" with "postscript"
option and also load the pstricks package::
\usepackage{shortvrb}
- \usepackage{ucs}
+ \usepackage[postscript]{ucs}
+ \usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
* Convert to PDF with `latex`, `dvips`, and `ps2pdf`.
The `rubber` building system for LaTeX documents is a help here, just run
`rubber --ps --pdf <your-box-file>.tex`
Günter
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From: <tre...@gm...> - 2008-06-23 12:41:04
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"G. Milde" <mi...@us...> writes:
> On 22.06.08, Trent W. Buck wrote:
>> Before I spend any more time grovelling through the TeX generated by
>> docutils, I thought I'd ask: has anyone got Unicode box art working
>> in a reST to PDF toolchain?
>
> * generate LaTeX code with --output-encoding=utf-8:strict.
Yup, already doing that.
> * In the latex file, edit the preamble to load "ucs" with "postscript"
> option and also load the pstricks package::
>
> \usepackage{shortvrb}
> - \usepackage{ucs}
> + \usepackage[postscript]{ucs}
> + \usepackage{pstricks}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
Neither rst2latex nor rst2newlatex include a ucs line, here, using
Debian's 0.4-6 package. Are you using a svn snapshot?
> * Convert to PDF with `latex`, `dvips`, and `ps2pdf`.
> The `rubber` building system for LaTeX documents is a help here, just run
> `rubber --ps --pdf <your-box-file>.tex`
Hmm, I'd been using rubber, but with --inplace --pdf rather than --ps
--pdf.
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From: G. M. <mi...@us...> - 2008-06-23 13:21:09
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On 23.06.08, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> "G. Milde" <mi...@us...> writes:
> > On 22.06.08, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> >> Before I spend any more time grovelling through the TeX generated by
> >> docutils, I thought I'd ask: has anyone got Unicode box art working
> >> in a reST to PDF toolchain?
> >
> > * generate LaTeX code with --output-encoding=utf-8:strict.
> Yup, already doing that.
> > * In the latex file, edit the preamble to load "ucs" with "postscript"
> > option and also load the pstricks package::
> Neither rst2latex nor rst2newlatex include a ucs line, here, using
> Debian's 0.4-6 package. Are you using a svn snapshot?
Yes. But, as you need to edit the generated latex anyway, you might be OK
with 0.4-6. Juas make sure to replace the line that loads package inputenc
with
> > \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
and also load ucs and pstricks
\usepackage[postscript]{ucs}
\usepackage{pstricks}
.
> > * Convert to PDF with `latex`, `dvips`, and `ps2pdf`.
> > The `rubber` building system for LaTeX documents is a help here, just run
> > `rubber --ps --pdf <your-box-file>.tex`
> Hmm, I'd been using rubber, but with --inplace --pdf rather than --ps
> --pdf.
While --inplace or not will not influence the box-drawing characters, you
need the --ps --pdf as pstricks (used to draw the boxes) is incompatible
with pdflatex (see the rubber man or info pages for details).
Günter
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From: <tre...@gm...> - 2008-06-25 03:04:40
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"G. Milde" <mi...@us...> writes: > On 23.06.08, Trent W. Buck wrote: >> "G. Milde" <mi...@us...> writes: >> > On 22.06.08, Trent W. Buck wrote: >> >> Before I spend any more time grovelling through the TeX generated by >> >> docutils, I thought I'd ask: has anyone got Unicode box art working >> >> in a reST to PDF toolchain? >> > * In the latex file, edit the preamble to load "ucs" with "postscript" >> > option and also load the pstricks package:: > >> Neither rst2latex nor rst2newlatex include a ucs line, here, using >> Debian's 0.4-6 package. Are you using a svn snapshot? > > Yes. But, as you need to edit the generated latex anyway, you might be OK > with 0.4-6. Juas make sure to replace the line that loads package inputenc > with Using rst2newlatex, works with trunk r5573 but not with Debian's 0.4-6. I've rolled out that trunk snapshot to a couple of my boxes, which will do for now. Thanks for your help. |
