Re: [docbook-apps] special characters

[Tristan Fiedler <fiedler@cshl.edu>]

Hi Lisa,

These symbols can be used from the docbook xml 'ent' files such as :

              <para>This is latin small a with acute : &#x000E1;</para>
                 <para>This is  latin small a with acute : 
&aacute;</para>
                 <para>This is latin small a with grave : 
&#x000E0;</para>
                 <para>This is latin small a with grave : &agrave;</para>
                 <para>This is latin small o with diaeresis : 
&#x000F6;</para>
                 <para>This is latin small o with diaeresis : 
&ouml;</para>

Check out the files at http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4CR2/ent/ such as 
http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4CR2/ent/isolat1.ent and 
http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4CR2/ent/isolat2.ent

Cheers,        Tristan
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Tristan J. Fiedler

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
On Apr 28, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Lisa Girard wrote:

> Dear List Members,
>
> We are trying to figure out how to code for umlauts and acute accents. 
> For other special symbols we have been using <symbol role= 
> "symbolfont">&#x03B2;</symbol>, with the appropriate unicode value  in 
> place of the symbol, but we are unsure how to deal with those that are 
> placed above a letter, in this case, an umlaut over an o and an acute 
> accent over an a.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Lisa Girard