Re: [docbook-apps] Using ISONUM.ENT correctly

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Tristan,
The only thing you need to do to get named character entities to work is to
make sure the DocBook DTD is accessible during your processing.  If the DTD
is available, the parser will convert ― to ― automatically,
and you should see that numerical entity reference in your FO output file if
you peek inside it.

But the problem you are having, though, is that the font named "Symbol" on
Windows and Macs is the Adobe Symbol font.  It does not contain that
character.  So even if you manually set the font-family to Symbol for that
character, it won't work because the character is not in the font.  You need
to find a font that has that character.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tristan Fiedler" <fiedler@cshl.edu>
To: "Jirka Kosek" <jirka@kosek.cz>; "Docbook-Apps"
<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:00 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Using ISONUM.ENT correctly


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 -->

-----

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
------------------------------
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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