Re: [virtio] Re: Touch-ups needed for the virtio csd01 and csprd01 file "front matter"

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 12:27:29PM -0500, Paul Knight wrote:
> Hi Michael and all,
> 
> I believe that the PDF is fine, but the HTML contains the non-ascii
> representations of ligatures, instead of the characters "fi" and "ff".

Yes, html seems problematic.
I didn't find a nice way to disable this for HTML yet.
Worst case we'll do a post-processing step and change these
back to ascii for draft 2.

> Although most users would not notice it, I remember having it cause some issues
> in my processing stream, in particular a step in which I copy the phrase
> "Committee Specification Draft 01" from the HTML document to an environment
> variable for generating things like the manifest file, etc.
> 
> If it can be avoided by setting something in the production environment, that
> would be helpful. 
> 
> Best regards,
> Paul
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 06:12:11PM -0500, Paul Knight wrote:
>     > A bit of follow-up on the "fi" and "ff" issue:
>     >
>     > - first, I see that the TC (?) apparently ran into the issue and
>     introduced a
>     > workaround in the file /tex/makehtml.sh
>     >
>     >     #For some unclear reason we get 'fi' replaced by NULL character
>     >     #on Fedora. file recognizes result as a binary data.
>     >
>     >
>     > - second, for what it's worth, a bit of information which indicates that
>     there
>     > may be a way to shut it off in TeX:
>     >
>     > "TeX is an example of a computer typesetting system that makes use of
>     ligatures
>     > automatically. The Computer Modern Roman typeface provided with TeX
>     includes
>     > the five common ligatures ff, fi, fl, ffi, and ffl. When TeX finds these
>     > combinations in a text it substitutes the appropriate ligature, **unless
>     > overridden by the typesetter.**" [1]
>     >
>     > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature#
>     Computer_typesetting
>     >
>     > This isn't an area where I can likely be of much help other than to wish
>     you
>     > luck...
>     >
>     > Best regards,
>     > Paul
> 
>     Do we still have this issue?
>     I don't see the problem in the pdf here:
>     https://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/
>     30-day-public-review-for-virtual-i-o-device-virtio-v1-0
>     words like specification and offset all appear fine now.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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