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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Some problems with rendering db -> PDF
Hi Mark, I saw the response from the xep-support list about the lack of "Symbol,ZapfDingbats" in the font-family property, even though you are using the 1.62 stylesheets. I think I see the problem now. Are you specifying a "Helvetica" in the titlepage specification file? If you specify a font name directly rather than using the $title.font.family parameter, then you won't get the "backup" fonts in the font-family property in the FO output. I'll check to see what would be needed to process the titlepage spec file to add that. But in the meantime, you could change your font-family specification in the titlepage spec file to "Helvetica,Symbol,ZapfDingbats" and then greek characters should work. 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 On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:04:31AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:34:28PM +0200, Marc Baaden wrote: > > > > Hi Bob, > > > > thanks for your suggestions. > > I actually found the problem concerning hyphenation. > > It was a nested inclusion of docbook stylesheets > > mixing 1.62 and an older version. > > > > My problem with greek characters remains. It only occurs > > in the titles, in my case it is a book and concerned are > > the chapter titles. > > > > The behaviour of different fonts is different, some work, > > some show plain nothing, others show an empty box. > > > > Examples: > > Palatino - ok > > Helvetica - nothing > > BookAntiqua - empty box > > > > Helvetica is an afm font, the others are truetype fonts (eg > > windows). > > > > Any suggestion how I could work on getting this right ? > > This is strange, because I get Greek characters I > enter as &agr; and &zgr; in chapter titles when I use > title.font.family=Helvetica in the 1.62.0 stylesheets. > There are two properties in output of the 1.62.0 > stylesheets that should make this work in XEP. > > Peek inside your FO output and see if you have this property > on the fo:root element: > > font-selection-strategy="character-by-character" > > And search for the page with the chapter title > and see if the block that sets the font-family has: > > font-family="Helvetica,Symbol,ZapfDingbats" > > If both of these are ok, then something is going wrong > with XEP switching to the alternate font. Maybe > xep-support could help with that. > > -- > > 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 -- 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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