Using ISONUM.ENT correctly

[Tristan Fiedler <fiedler@cshl.edu>]

I am using a Mac OSX 10.3.8 with Adobe Reader 6.0, Saxon 6.5.3 and FOP 
0.20.5.  My system's Font Book shows the "Symbol" font enabled under 
both AllFonts>Computer, and PDF, but not AllFonts>User.  Is this the 
problem?

I would like to show several symbols in my PDF - but having no luck.  
For example, how would I show (in PDF) the horizontal bar referenced in 
the isonum.ent file:

<!ENTITY horbar           "&#x02015;" ><!--HORIZONTAL BAR -->

I have tried putting the following at the top of my DocBook article:

   <!ENTITY % isonum PUBLIC
          "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Numeric and Special Graphic//EN//XML"
          "http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/iso8879/isonum.ent";
        >
        %isonum;

But this is not correct my parser tells me (something with the last 
line I believe).

I have also tried various combinations of hex /dec, unicode, etc., as 
well as various stylesheet things like :

<xsl:param name="symbol.font.family" 
select="'Symbol,ZapfDingbats'"></xsl:param>

<!-- Force Special Characters to change to Symbol font 
(http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SpecialChars.html)  - BEGIN -->
<xsl:template match="symbol[@role = 'symbolfont']">
<fo:inline font-family="Symbol">
<xsl:call-template name="inline.charseq"/>
</fo:inline>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Force Special Characters to change to Symbol font 
(http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SpecialChars.html)  - END -->

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I would like to show several symbols in my PDF - but having no luck.  
For example, how would I show (in PDF) the horizontal bar referenced in 
the isonum.ent file:

<!ENTITY horbar           "&#x02015;" ><!--HORIZONTAL BAR -->

Could someone give a clear description of how to use these character 
entities?


Thank you,

Tristan
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Tristan J. Fiedler
Postdoctoral Fellow - Stein Lab
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
On Feb 17, 2005, at 3:10 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote:

> Tristan Fiedler wrote:
>
>> HTML output works, but FO/PDF displays only pound (#) signs for the 
>> Unicode character ref's below:
>> beginning of text...  &#x02015;   &#x02010;   &#x02011;   &#x02012;  
>> ... rest of text.
>
> This means that you FO processor is not configured to use font with 
> that characters. Many fonts contain only subset of Unicode repertoire. 
> If you are on Windows you can configure your FO processor to use 
> Lucida Unicode (l_10646.ttf) -- this font contains many characters.
>
> After you register font in FO processor modify following XSL 
> stylesheet parameter to include the font into list of fallback fonts 
> used for missing characters in primary font:
>
> <xsl:param name="symbol.font.family" 
> select="'Symbol,ZapfDingbats,LucidaUnicode'"/>
>
> HTH,
>
> 				Jirka
>
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