Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Rendering characters in inverse video

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Kevin Dunn writes:

 > I have a more general question: Is it possible to add new character
 > sets in addition to the iso-ents? I am using Docbook 4.1 SGML +

just add your own entities, if they expand to Unicode characters. easy.

 > but how does get turned into actual character shapes by an HTML
 > browser or TeX?
in tex, they get turned into Unicode by Jade, and then JadeTeX looks them
up in the file uentities.sty/ucharacters.sty

 > In short, how would you rate the task of adding a
 > custom character set for HTML and TeX output?
DSSSL is based on Unicode. you dont get custom character sets...

sebastian