Re: [Docutils-users] Unicode box drawing characters in PDF (via LaTeX)

[G. M. <mi...@us...>]

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