[pdftex] translating data to macros

[E R]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Reinhard Kotucha
<reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:

>
> You can either quote these characters or put the whole stuff into a
> verbatim environment.

By quoting do you mean prepending a backslash? One of my problems is
that the only way I know how to make a less-than symbol is to go into
math mode: $<$. There doesn't seem to be a uniform way to quote
characters so that they are not interpreted in any special way by TeX.
That means I need a table which translates characters to a TeX
sequence which will produce that character.

Re: verbatim... i don't that will work since I need to inline the
macros. E.g. the LaTeX template will look something like:

Dear \Name, Thank you for your interest in \Product. ...

The definitions of \Name and \Product will come from a database, so I
need to automate the creation of those macro definitions.

For what it's worth, here are the packages I am using:

\documentclass[10pt]{article}

\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[russian]{babel}


Thanks,

ER

>
>  > Note that my data will contain non-ASCII characters such as characters
>  > in the Latin1 and Cyrillic code-point space.
>
> Seems that you need an engine which supports UTF-8 natively, like
> xetex/xelatex.
>
> However, if you know about the language in advance, you can look at
> the example I provided in the VnTeX documentation.
>
>  http://www.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/language/vietnamese/vntex/doc/generic/vntex/vntex.pdf
>
> The example is on page 4.
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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