Publishing Encyclopædia with Acrobat using TEX

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  • Petr Sojka
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An experience from the process of adding logical markup to visually tagged scanned data is presented. Method of gradual markup enhancement is outlined. Methods of navigation in a large hypertext document based on typesetting from logical markup are suggested—physical, logical and semantic user views. Their application on a 29 000 page digitization project to create an electronic encyclopædia is described. Problems faced in applying Adobe’s Acrobat technology for encyclopædia publishing are discussed. Résumé : On présente les résultats d’un expériment avec balises logiques des données qui sont visuellement étiquettées et scannées. On décrit une méthode de perfectionnement progressif. Des méthodes de navigation dans un grand document d’hypertexte qui exploitent le balisage logique sont proposées. Elle correspondent aux vues physiques, logiques et sémantiques. Une application dans un projet de 28 000 pages pour créer une encyclopédie électronique est décrite. On considère ainsi des problèmes rencontrés en utilisant Acrobat.

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تاریخ انتشار 1998