Re: [Indic-computing-devel] howto embed glyph images in handbook

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>   How are images esp, something like glyphs, text
> strings to be
> embedded in handbook?

At the moment using <inlinemediaobject>.  This works,
ok for HTML output but poorly for PDF.

The needs for print and online display are 
different enough that getting good quality output
on both using embedded images is difficult.

> Any mechanisms to generate them on the fly & have
> them embedded when
> building a pdf/ps/html ?

There is a planned mechanism which is not operational
yet.  The idea is to extend DocBook with a tag
``<indicphrase>''.

The contents of an indicphrase element would be data
representing some indian language text in some 
arbitrary encoding scheme.  A encoding scheme is
specified using an attribute.

The transformation process from DocBook to the output
format [PDF, HTML, whatever], would convert
<indicphrase> elements to the appropriate GIF images
for HTML, or to embedded font sequences for PDF 
or PS.

I'm not sure if this is enough.  This is what I'm
trying at the moment.  Suggestions are welcome.

There is more about how the documentation is built
on the website (look for an article named
"Documentation Build Infrastructure").


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