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

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

You can find listings of the Adobe fonts in XEP's test suite:

http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/TestSuite/contrib/XEP/testsuite.html

Scroll down to "Standard Charsets"

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tristan Fiedler" <fiedler@cshl.edu>
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>; "Jirka Kosek" <jirka@kosek.cz>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Using ISONUM.ENT correctly


I have been digging into this and also came to the conclusion that
perhaps neither Symbol, nor Zapfdingbats contain the &x2015 character.

Do either of you know where a list of all characters in the fonts
Symbol and Zapfdingbats can be found?

Many thanks,        Tristan
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Tristan J. Fiedler
Postdoctoral Fellow - Stein Lab
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Bob Stayton wrote:

> 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 &horbar; to &#x2015;
> 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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