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This document outlines the process for creating a basic multilingual e-book in PDF format from text prepared using the Multilingual Editor. The three main steps are: 1) Prepare the text and contents using the Multilingual Editor, 2) Embed reference tags in the text for links, 3) Convert the .llf file to PDF using the llf2pdf utility. The resulting e-book will support text in multiple Indian languages but have limited formatting capabilities.

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Prepare The Text Embed Reference Tags Convert

This document outlines the process for creating a basic multilingual e-book in PDF format from text prepared using the Multilingual Editor. The three main steps are: 1) Prepare the text and contents using the Multilingual Editor, 2) Embed reference tags in the text for links, 3) Convert the .llf file to PDF using the llf2pdf utility. The resulting e-book will support text in multiple Indian languages but have limited formatting capabilities.

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This is a sample ebook prepared using the tools developed at the Systems Development Laboratory, IIT Madras.

The llf2pdf utility is the basic application which is used in converting a .llf document into the Portable Document Format (PDF). Please note that the ebook generated using the method outlined below will be a simple one with minimal features. Multilingual text can be present but images and tables etc., are not supported. Yet, the resulting ebook will be useful since it is one of a kind directly supporting multilingual text in all the Indian languages, including Roman Diacritics. There are three steps in preparing a multilingual e-book. 1. 2. 3. Prepare the text (contents) using the Multilingual Editor. Embed reference tags at places where links have to be palced. Convert the .llf file into the Adobe pdf format using llf2pdf.

Prepare the contents using the Multilingual Editor. The text in the e-book may be easily typed in using the Multilingual Editor which supports data entry in all the nine scripts. Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Bengali, Oriya, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam besides Roman Diacritics. ( Editor Link ).

Embedding reference tags. To allow links within the document the following tags are to be inserted. The reference (link) could to be another page or to a URL on the web. Local reference links. The format is [sturl]<Pn> ...... text in the link ..... [endurl] where [sturl] is a special local language character specifying the start of the link and [endurl] is a special local language character specifying the end of the link. The square brackets are not to be typed in. The sturl akshara is visarg + CTRL k (typed in as : ^k) The endurl akshara is visarg + CTRL k +q (typed in as : ^k q ) As an example consider the line below prOaNay saDnam ?<P4> vnaSay c k]tam will create a link on the word vnaSay which will point to Page 4. Special Note: The special tag characters will appear as ? and which may actually be confusing (perhaps only initially) because the question mark and the double danda are also valid local language characters. However, internally these will correspond to different aksharas and the llf2pdf utility will correctly identify the same.

Invoking the llf2pdf Utility. The llf2pdf utility is a simple application that runs from the command line both under Linux and Windows. It is invoked as C:...> llf2pdf -i <input file> -o <output file> An example of invocation will be llf2pdf -i manual.llf -o manual.pdf That is as simple as that. The resulting output file will open under a suitable viewer for PDF documents such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader or xpdf (Linux Systems). The llf2 pdf utility is freely downloadable from the Acharya site. acharya.iitm.ac.in/software/utils/llf2pdf.php Using Adobe Tools. If you have access to Adobe Acrobat Software, the e-book may be easy enough to generate. First create the ebook with the Multilingual Editor and save it. On Windows systems, an rtf file would have been created along with the .llf file. This rtf file can be opened under Win Word or similar application or directly imported into Acrobat. The main advantage of the IITM software lies in its ability to create multilingual documents with substantial ease.

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