Re: [docbook-apps] Greek Symbol problems with fop 0.95

[Vincent Hennebert <vhennebert@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Bob Stayton wrote:
> I believe this is a FOP limitation,including 0.95, supposedly fixed in
> the trunk version[1].

Yes, that’s right. However...


> Is anyone using the trunk version of FOP that can test this
> problem?
> 
> [1]
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-fop-users/200807.mbox/%3cA22DDB82-F860-4A12-8A0A-A1280CE4C2BF@telenet.be%3e
> 
> 
> The current workaround is to put the character inside an fo:inline with
> an explicit setting of font-family="Symbol".

... people may want to stick to that approach for the moment, as on my
small test I noticed baseline alignment issues, that don’t appear when
using fo:inline.


> My book describes a way to
> do that:
> 
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SpecialChars.html#SwitchSymbol
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net

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Vincent