Re[2]: [xep-support] Problem with greek characters in chapter titles using some fonts

From: Alexander Peshkov (peshkov@renderx.com)
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 00:23:55 PDT

  • Next message: Marc Baaden: "Re: Re[2]: [xep-support] Problem with greek characters in chapter titles using some fonts"

    Hello Marc,

    I believe this problem has nothing to do with XEP itself but rather
    caused by XSLT (customization or native Docbook stylesheets) which
    generate inadequate XSL FO. Could you please send me a problematic XSL
    FO file?

    Best regards,
    Alexander Peshkov mailto:peshkov@renderx.com
    RenderX

    MB> Nikolai,

    MB> thank you for your comments, but this does not fit with what I
    MB> observe:

    MB> in the *BODY* of the text *EVERYTHING* is fine with the greek
    MB> characters, whatever font I choose (Palatino, Helvetica,
    MB> BookAntiqua ...).
    MB> It is *ONLY* in the *TITLES* that I have problems.

    MB> So I do not think it is an inherent problem with the fonts.
    MB> Because even if Helvetica does not cover the greek alphabet,
    MB> the docbook 1.62.0 stylesheet generated fo code should tell
    MB> XEP to fall back on other fonts (which seems to work fine for
    MB> the body of the text):

    MB> font-selection-strategy="character-by-character"
    MB> font-family="Helvetica,Symbol,ZapfDingbats"

    MB> My feeling is rather that maybe XEP does not honour these
    MB> settings for titles for some reason ???

    MB> Any hints on this are greatly appreciated,
    MB> Marc

    >>>> "Nikolai Grigoriev" said:
    MB> >> Marc,
    MB> >>
    MB> >> > I experience problems with greek characters in chapter
    MB> >> > titles. Depending on the font I use, these are fine,
    MB> >> > do not appear at all, or show an empty box.
    MB> >> >
    MB> >> > In the chapter body, the greek characters are fine.
    MB> >> >
    MB> >> > To be more specific:
    MB> >> >
    MB> >> > Font Greek Characters
    MB> >> > Palatino (TTF) fine
    MB> >>
    MB> >> Palatino covers Greek alphabet.
    MB> >>
    MB> >> > Helvetica (afm) nothing/empty
    MB> >>
    MB> >> The built-in Helvetica font covers only Adobe ExtendedRoman
    MB> >> charset - that is, a superposition of WinAnsi and MacRoman.
    MB> >> There is a single Greek character there (mu, used as a micro
    MB> >> sign). You can find lists of characters covered by the base
    MB> >> fonts in examples/charsets/ directory in your XEP distribution.
    MB> >>
    MB> >> > BookAntiqua (TTF) empty boxes
    MB> >>
    MB> >> Same as above. Most probably, there are no Greek characters
    MB> >> in the font. Please check font composition. To see the repertory
    MB> >> of glyphs covered by a font, you can run the following class
    MB> >> from XEP's jar:
    MB> >>
    MB> >> java ... com.renderx.fonts.AFM <font_file_name>
    MB> >>
    MB> >> It will list all Unicode codepoints that XEP can discern
    MB> >> in your font.
    MB> >>
    MB> >> Best regards,
    MB> >> Nikolai Grigoriev
    MB> >> RenderX
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    MB> Marc Baaden

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