[tex-live] I must be missing something with TeX...

Tim Legg texlive at cherokeenewtestament.org
Sat Feb 5 00:59:43 CET 2011


Sorry for the slow reply,  been very busy on my end.

Thanks Karl and Taco for the links.

>
>
> On 01/31/11 19:37, Karl Berry wrote:
>>     I cannot find a single tutorial or
>>     hello world type of document
>>
>> http://tug.org/begin.html
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=hello+world+latex
>

I have seen many tutorials and introductions, but maybe my ubuntu
installation is broken because every single tutorial I followed (about 5)
didn't work, not even with cutting/pasting the code in.  Usually something
about not finding a sty file or something along those lines.  I have no
idea where to find one of those when they are missing and if replacing it
in the right location would be all that it would take.

Yes, I used TeX back in the 90's to produce my calculus assignments.  Also
a Computer Eng prof of mine offered extra credit for handing in TeX files.

I transcribed a very old book in a non-English language.  Since TeX only
supports English, that itself isn't going to work.  I heard that there are
other modified versions of TeX that do support unicode TTF fonts, but
actually getting them to work is beyond anything I have been able to
figure out.

I transcribed a bible from a different language.  It is stored as almost
8000 text files.  I wrote two C programs.  One reads the phonetic text I
typed and converts them into UTF-8, saved in different file.  The other
program reads these 8000 files and parses them where they have a verse
number in the first characters of the verse and prints chapter headings
and newlines.  This program saves the output as 26 unicode text files. 
Here is a sample of what my output looks like.

http://www.cherokeenewtestament.org/01.txt

Everytime I fixed a typo, I had to go to OpenOffice and make a new PDF.  I
would rather modify the C program to output something TeX, or some
derivative, can work with.

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I'll leave it at this challenge:

The first person whom can tell me what packages I need to install on
Ubuntu 10.04, how I configure the packages tools to implement a specific
font, "Cherokee.TTF", that I posses.  Then finally, e-mail me a TeX file
that I can compile/interpret/execute on the command line to create a PDF
file with these 2 lines below below:

 1 ᎯᎠ ᎪᏪᎵ ᎧᏃᎮᎭ
ᏧᏁᏢᏔᏅᏒ ᏥᏌ
ᎦᎶᏁᏛ, ᏕᏫ ᎤᏪᏥ,
ᎡᏆᎭᎻ ᎤᏪᏥ.
 2 ᎡᏆᎭᎻ ᎡᏏᎩ
ᎤᏕᏁᎴᎢ; ᎡᏏᎩᏃ
ᏤᎦᏈ ᎤᏕᏁᎴᎢ,
ᏤᎦᏈᏃ ᏧᏓ ᎠᎴ
ᎾᏍᎩ ᎠᎾᏓᏅᏟ
ᎬᏩᏕᏁᎴᎢ;

visible somewhere within it.  I will write them a $100 USD check.

With that, I can at least have a template to build on to construct the
entire book.  Honest to god, I have been working on this problem for
almost 2 years.

Thanks,

Tim Legg



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