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Touch-ups needed for the virtio csd01 and csprd01 file "front matter"

From: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:02:00 -0000

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 <[email protected]> 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. > > > > > > -- > Paul Knight - Tel: +1 781-861-1013 > OASIS - Advancing open standards for the information society > Document Process Analyst >