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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] [Fwd: → in Palitino Font]

From: "Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>
To: "'Marshall Schor'" <msa@schor.com>, <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:30:40 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marshall Schor 
> 
> I'm using Docbook -> PDF via FOP 0.25. I've set FOP up to use Palatino
> 
> Font, following the procedure in Stayton's book.
> 
> The right-arrow character, &rarr;, is coming out as "#" - I think 
> indicating that "character" is missing.
> 
> Is there a way to add this character? or some other approach 
> (for instance,
> can I somehow specify that certain characters should be 
> rendered in other
> fonts, perhaps at other code points?)


Try the technique described here:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SpecialChars.html#SwitchSymbol

/MJ

References:
- [Fwd: → in Palitino Font]
  - From: Marshall Schor <msa@schor.com>