RE: [docbook-apps] LE madness

[Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>]

≤ and ≤ refer to the same character.  8804 is in decimal
notation, 2264 is in hexadecimal.  That aside, the problem is that the font
you are using does not include a ≤ character.  Helvetica and Times
neither one do.  Of the standard Adobe fonts, I believe only the Symbol font
has the appropriate character.

With XEP, this is relatively easy to fix.  If you specify multiple font
families in the fo:font-family attribute (as in font-family="Helvetica,
Symbol") XEP will look down the list when it encounters a character that
doesn't exist in the first font.  (This is a feature they added in version
3.1, if I remember correctly.)  If you do this, you'll probably also want to
set the font-selection-strategy to "character-by-character" on your fo:root
element.  Otherwise, XEP will switch to the Symbol font for that character
and all following characters (until it comes to a character not in the
Symbol font.)

AFAIK, FOP does not support multiple font families in this manner.  I think
it just uses the first font it can find for all characters in the document.

HTH,

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John R. Daily [mailto:jdaily at progeny dot com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:20 AM
> To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
> Subject: [docbook-apps] LE madness
> 
> 
> I imagine there's a simple resolution for this, but I've reached
> the point of apathy by way of confused frustration.
> 
> I tried to use ≤ in a document.  Silly me.
> 
> When generating PDF via FOP and XEP, I noticed that the character
> was butchered; it was rendered as "#" by one, and as a space by
> the other.  I don't recall which was which, off-hand.
> 
> The .fo file generated through the XSL stylesheets uses the
> Unicode character, x2264.
> 
> I looked at XEP's example symbol.fo, which does the following:
> 
>   <fo:block text-align="center" font="11pt Symbol">&#8804;</fo:block>
> 
> Why 8804?  No idea.  But that does work, for XEP.  FOP doesn't
> support the font attribute.
> 
> If that's the standard mechanism, should the DocBook stylesheets
> support it?  If it's not, what should I be doing to get FOP (I'm
> only experimenting with XEP) to do "less than/equal" properly?
> I've given up and moved on to "&lt;=" for now.
> 
> --
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