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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Some problems with rendering db -> PDF
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 04:13:19PM +0200, Marc Baaden wrote: > > Hi, > > I am currently finishing a scientific report that I have written > in docbook+refdb. There are some points that I could not yet > work out, so any help is appreciated: > > Infos: docbook 4, refdb, xsltproc+XEP toolchain > xml written in iso-8851, french language Is that iso-8859-1? > 1) In the titles (chapter/section) of the resulting PDF, the hyphenation > character does not appear. Eg the "-" is missing, whereas the words > are correctly separated I wasn't able to duplicate this problem, even with lang="fr". Long titles are hyphenated in my XEP output. I wasn't testing with French text, though. What versions of the stylesheets and XEP and you using? Are you using a customization layer? A modified titlepage.templates.xml? > > 2) Same thing for greek characters in the title (eg beta). They are > missing. In the actual paragraphs these are correctly reproduced. > So 1) and 2) seem title-specific. This could be a similar issue, except I get different results. With the 1.61.3 stylesheets, I don't get greek letters in either location. In the new release 1.62.0, the font-family property includes a font list "serif,Symbol,ZapfDingbats" instead of just "serif". That enables XEP to search the other fonts for characters it needs. It finds the greek characters in the new version. > 3) Font problem: although visually with xpdf and acrobat the PDFs > are ok, printing yields weird characters and lots of spaces. > Transforming with pdftops and printing the ps works fine. > Maybe an XEp configuration problem ?? Are you using any special fonts? > 4) I use superscript for things like La3+. The outcome is currently > very ugly. The fontsize of the 3+ is too big and it is also > positioned quite high. This makes appear large white spaces between > the lines before and containing the superscript. > Any tips for improving this ? > (I think of eg scientific articles, where the same linespacing is > maintained even with super/subscripts) The template for superscript does not reduce the font size. You will need to add a customized template that could respond to a role attribute on some superscripts (or change all superscripts if that is safe for your documents). Something like this: <xsl:template match="superscript[@role='sci']"> <fo:inline baseline-shift="super" font-size="75%"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </fo:inline> </xsl:template> > 5) Euro symbol : how to include the euro symbol in a docbook document ? > is there an entity for it, or should one just (assuming I'd write > in utf-8) paste it in unicode ? The € entity is defined in the DocBook 4.2 DTD. > 6) Less urgent, what is the recommended way for checking spelling > (note: I am writing a French document, so I need a french dictionary). > Is this typically something that should be left for the editor > (Emacs in my case) or are there other recommended ways ? I use aspell with the --mode=sgml option. Very efficient. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@sco.com
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