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

[Justus.Piater@ULg.ac.be (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...

Justus


Jens Skripczynski <skripi-lists@myrealbox.com> wrote on Tue, 1 Jun
2004 22:33:42 +0200:

> I use &Omicron; and &oplus; in the xml file.
>
> After generating the pdf file with xsl 1.65.1 and fop 0.20.5
> I can only see '#' instead of the characters.

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