Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

[Eric Streit <eric@yojik.eu>]

hi again,

of course I used UTF-8, and I checked the fonts before (with diacritics)

And I set the language for all the Russian parts.

And the hyphénation patterns are installed.

Thanks for the advices

Eric

Le 14/09/2015 09:25, Thomas Schraitle a écrit :
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:07:09 +0200
> Eric Streit <eric@yojik.eu> wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>> My documents are bilingual documents with specific needs like
>> diacritics (these are languages lerning documents).
>>
>>
>> I tried the "normal" toolchain: docbook->fop--> pdf and html.
>>
>> I went into some problems:
>>
>> * the diacritics are not at the right place, depending of the font
>> used.
> 
> Which encoding do you use?
> 
> I would recommend to use UTF-8 throughout your files, especially if you
> use bilingual documents with diacritics.
> 
> Have you checked your fonts for all the diacritics? It is NOT enough if
> your XML code contains it, your fonts have to support it as well.
> 
> Try it with a different font, for example, from SIL:
> http://scripts.sil.org/SILFontList
> 
> 
>> * long list tend to overlapp the footers.
>> * hyphenation only works for one language (and my documents get at
>> least 2 languages)
> 
> Have you set the language attribute?
> 
> Use "lang='en'" (DocBook 4) or "xml:lang='en'" (DocBook 5) to set the
> language to English. If you have paragraphs which are written in a
> different language, use the language attribute as well here.
> 
> If your hyphenation patterns are correctly installed, this should give
> you correct hyphenated linebreaks.
> 
> 
>> [...]
> 
> Hope this gives you some ideas where to search. :)
> 
>

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