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Re: [docbook-apps] using greek characters with docbook
Hi Justus,
thx for the help, worked fine. The pdf has finally the missing
chars.
Justus H. Piater:
> Jens,
>
> The problem is Fop's font handling. Fop does not automatically switch
> fonts if a given glyph does not exist in the current font.
>
> I've been helping myself with the following workaround: put the
> special character into a dedicated element, e.g.,
>
> <phrase role="symbol">Ο</phrase>
>
> and then put a template into your stylesheet customization that
> switches to a font that contains this glyph:
>
> <xsl:template match="phrase[@role='symbol']">
> <fo:inline font-family="Symbol">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </fo:inline>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Ugly, but works for me...
Ciao
Jens Skripczynski
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