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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Latin-2 character entities in html
>>>>> "Norman" == Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes: Norman> / Colin Paul Adams <colin@colina.demon.co.uk> was heard to Norman> say: | Actually, these macron characters are actually Norman> Latin-4 not Latin-2, so | TDG is mis-leading at best. Norman> Uh, if I listed them in isolat2, then they're in the Norman> isolat2 ISO entity set. If they aren't actually in the ISO Norman> Latin 2 character set, um, I'm not sure what to say. I think you just have to blush :-) I've just checked by looking in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps (comes with glibc on my RedHat system) as my information came second hand (I asked a Polish friend (I thought he ought to know), who replied that all the macron characters were Latin-4 (Latvia and Lithuania)). Sure enough, the word MACRON occurs in the file ISO-8859-4, but not in ISO-8859-2. Norman> | Latin-1 characters). I guess there must be some way of Norman> telling the | browsers what font to use for the pages in Norman> the article, but I don't | know what the html markup is Norman> for this, nor how to go about achieving | it in DocBook. Norman> If you find out the former, I'll try to help with the Norman> latter. I think it'll turn out to be a markup+stylesheet Norman> issue. Well, I found out how to set the character set to utf-8 (from this list), but I had two problems with this - firstly, the characters looked to be a very different typeface from the rest of the document, and secondly, Netscape wouldn't display the — character using that character set. I just can't win! I've decided to stick with using circumflex characters for these vowels in the html version, but to use the proper characters in the pdf or postscript versions. Now, how to do this. I can do it with a sed script on the resulting html pages, but as this is a bodge, I'd rather do it via markup/stylesheets. Also, I shall want to put a footnote in the html version, to explain the accent substitution, but I would rather not have this appear in the postscript/pdf versions. -- Colin Paul Adams Preston Lancashire
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