Re: [docbook-apps] using greek characters with docbook

[Jens Skripczynski <skripi-lists@myrealbox.com>]

Hi Justus,

thx for the help, worked fine. The pdf has finally the missing
chars.
Justus H. Piater:
> Jens,
> 
> The problem is Fop's font handling. Fop does not automatically switch
> fonts if a given glyph does not exist in the current font.
> 
> I've been helping myself with the following workaround: put the
> special character into a dedicated element, e.g.,
> 
>   <phrase role="symbol">&Omicron;</phrase>
> 
> and then put a template into your stylesheet customization that
> switches to a font that contains this glyph:
> 
>   <xsl:template match="phrase[@role='symbol']">
>     <fo:inline font-family="Symbol">
>       <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </fo:inline>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> Ugly, but works for me...

Ciao

Jens Skripczynski
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