RE: [docbook-apps] RE: XSL-FO and unicode

[<rob.cavicchio@emc.com>]

Fabien Tillier [mailto:f.tillier@cerep.fr] wrote:


> Do you think it is possible to do the customization on the stylesheet, so
> that it will detect special characters and replace, say α-
> bungarotoxin by the <symbol role="symbolfont">&#945;</symbol>-bungarotoxin
> ?

This is certainly possible to do in XSLT. I have done something similar to create HTML entities for special characters. You need to customize the template that matches your text node, cycle through each character using text functions such as "substring", and then just compare the character to the numerical entity; something like this:

<xsl:when test="$character = '&#945;'">
	<fo:inline font-family="'Symbol'"><xsl:value-of=select="$character" /></fo:inline>
</xsl:when>


> I read somewhere that the TRUNK version of FOP has some changes in that
> matter, I may give it a try...

Ooh, that would be good to know. Please let us know what you find.


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