Bug #224: Songwrite cannot handle Russian - New applications - DoudouLinux project life

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Task #250: Improve Songwrite

Songwrite cannot handle Russian

Added by Jean-Michel Philippe almost 14 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.

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In Progress

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Jean-Michel Philippe

Category:

Development

Target version:

DoudouLinux CD - 2012-11

Start date:

06/13/2011

Due date:

11/30/2012 (over 12 years late)

% Done:

50%

Estimated time:

5:00 h

Spent time:

2:00 h

Description

It is not possible to specify the Russian language in the song parameters. A patch is necessary but even with that, PDF exporting fails to render Cyrillic characters. We need to inform Jiba, the upstream author.

Related issues 2 (0 open — 2 closed)

Related to New applications - Feature #52: Create a first songbook for songwrite2

Closed

Jean-Michel Philippe

04/27/2011

05/23/2011

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Related to DoudouLinux CD - Bug #384: SongWrite2: print preview does not work

Closed

Jean-Michel Philippe

09/16/2011

09/21/2011

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Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe almost 14 years ago

Parent task changed from #44 to #250

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Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 13 years ago

Due date set to 08/29/2011
Status changed from New to In Progress
Assignee set to Jean-Michel Philippe
% Done changed from 0 to 50

The issue has been reported upstream and the author has been working on the integration of as many languages as possible, referring to the whole Latex/Babel language set. See:

http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/songwrite?view=rev&revision=296

The very first trials made showed that Russian texts are correctly displayed in the interface and in PDF scores, under the staffs. Unfortunately there are still issues for lyrics in the PDF output.

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Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 13 years ago

% Done changed from 50 to 80

The error message while compiling the (Russian) PDF score is the following:

(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2acmr.fd)
*geometry auto-detecting driver*
*geometry detected driver: dvips*
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T2A/aer/m/n' undefined
(Font)              using `T2A/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 11.

Investigations on the Internet showed that this is a problem of font declaration. The solution is to edit /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2acmr.fd then add the following lines:

\DeclareFontFamily{T2A}{aer}{}
\EC@family{T2A}{aer}{m}{n}{larm}

Just before the declaration of the font “cmr” for example.

We need to report this issue and its solution to Debian!

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Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 13 years ago

Status changed from In Progress to Ready for test
% Done changed from 80 to 100

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Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 13 years ago

The bug has now been reported to Debian:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647225

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Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 13 years ago

Status changed from Ready for test to Closed

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Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 13 years ago

Status changed from Closed to In Progress
% Done changed from 100 to 70
Estimated time changed from 2:00 h to 3:00 h

The upstream author has patched his code:

http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/songwrite/trunk/songwrite2/plugins/ps_native/ps_latex.py?r1=315&r2=314&pathrev=315

However the problem is now that lmodern is a very huge package (17 MB) and we just need one font in it. Moreover, lmodern may not fit non-Latin and non-Cyrillic languages. It would then be better to add a fix that allows for specifying which font to use for a given language. For example the package texlive-lang-cyrillic provides Cyrillic fonts and only weights less than 5 MB. Its font lcy has been successfully used to produce Russian PDF scores with lyrics.

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