[tex-live] [debian-refcard] Help needed with xmlroff -> dblatex migration

[Holger Wansing]

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Hi,

I am trying to get rid of xmlroff in the build chain for Debian refcard
(https://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#refcard)
but I am apparently overstrained with this.

xmlroff is used for Hebrew and Arabic (and additionally Malayalam, but that
translation is badly outdated, so it's probably not worse to spent time on it).

To simplify the dependencies and the build chain itself, we would like to
move Hebrew and Arabic to dblatex, as it is already with the rest of the
languages.

However, I am unable to get correct PDFs built so far.

There are two main points:
1. which fonts to use? (I was told to use Amiri font for Arabic, but I have
   no advise so far for Hebrew; I read something about Dejavu font, but could
   not get the PDF built with it.)

2. configuration examples


A browsable URL for the sources is here:
https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/refcard

I have filed a bugreport against debian-refcard, to track this:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824222

And I received patches/snippets for this migration, which I have collected
here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=824222;filename=switch-to-dblatex.diff;msg=5



Maybe someone can help me with this?


Holger



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