Hi, So what my experimenting shows so far for trying to change font is that I can adjust param.xsl and switch between serif or sans-serif. The result depends on what is available in fop.xconf which lists Times-Roman for serif, and Helvetica for sans-serif. I've attempted to add an additional font definition for DejaVuSans by the following inside the <fonts> of fop.xconf: <!-- DejaVuSans --><font embed-url="/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf"> <font-triplet name="DejaVuSans" style="normal" weight="normal"/> </font> I am unable to name "DejaVuSans" instead of "sans-serif" in param.xsl (it falls back to Symbol). I see three possibilities... 1. My DejaVuSans declaration is wrong. 2. I have to remove Helvetica in fop.xconf from the sans-serif listings. 3. The Docbook parameters you mentioned are somewhere outside of fop.xconf or param.xsl. It seems unlikely I need to remove Helvetica, more likely there is another configuration elsewhere. However, I don't see any occurrence of "Helvetica" in any of the other Docbook files under the "stylesheet/docbook-xsl-ns-1.79.1/" directory tree which are related to this case (for example, there is a subdirectory for "slides" which would seem to be unrelated to the "book" being published to pdf). The full path to the ttf font file is available and readable to everyone; this is verifiable with a font editor (one reason to choose DejaVu is that the font editor actually shows the desired box drawing font glyphs at index 0x2500 and on). Am I missing another file to edit, or am I simply using the wrong syntax for my addition of DejaVuSans? Thanks! ----- Original Message -----From: Richard Hamilton <hamil...@xmlpress.net>To: stimits@comcast.netCc: Docbook <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>Sent: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 20:36:59 -0000 (UTC)Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Odd Characters in UTF-8, Docbook 5.1
Hi, There are two steps to the font assignment process: 1) configuring fop’s fonts and 2) setting DocBook parameters to call the fonts you have configured in fop. In this case, the mapping between serif and Times (and sans-serif and Helvetica) happens in the fop configuration file, fop.xconf. So, when you set the DocBook parameter to sans-serif, fop defaults to Helvetica. If you want sans-serif to default to something else, or if you want to add a font, you need to change the configuration in fop.xconf. Once you have configured fop to recognize a font, you can refer to it from the DocBook parameters using the name you have associated with the font in fop.xconf. If you look in your fop.xconf file, you will find that the definition for Times contains several instances of the <font-triplet> element, each of which defines a name you can use for that font, along with information about style and weight. This page has some information on configuring the fop.xconf file for fonts: https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/2.1/fonts.html Best regards,Dick Hamilton-------XML PressXML for Technical Communicatorshttp://xmlpress.nethamil...@xmlpress.net > On Feb 1, 2017, at 11:53, stim...@comcast.net wrote:> > Hi,> > I tested this > by changing body.font.family to sans-serif. The document did successfully > switch, and used Helvetica. Unfortunately, Helvetica also lacks the box > drawing characters. Is there a configuration file used for a given Docbook > 5.1 installation which maps "Times Roman" to serif, and "Helvetica" to > sans-serif? I think this is the key to getting those box drawing characters > to work...perhaps if I can remap serif and sans-serif to valid fonts other > than Helvetica and Times Roman it would work with those characters.> > > Thanks!> > ----- Original Message -----> From: Bob Stayton > <b...@sagehill.net>> To: stim...@comcast.net, > docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:51:04 -0000 > (UTC)> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Odd Characters in UTF-8, Docbook 5.1> Hi,> > If by system-wide you mean everyone sharing one DocBook XSL > installation, > you could edit the parameters file for that installation. > Find the file > named fo/param.xsl and change these stylesheet parameters:> <xsl:param > name="body.font.family">serif</xsl:param>> <xsl:param > name="title.font.family">sans-serif</xsl:param>> All of the stylesheet params > are documented here:> > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/index.html> > Bob > Stayton> Sagehill Enterprises> b...@sagehill.net> On 2/1/2017 10:22 AM, > stim...@comcast.net wrote:> > I just wanted to add some information from > reading build logs for the> > document. It turns out the error shows up under > "fop" because the> > particular font does not support this character (I'm > surprised> > Times-Roman does not have this by default since just about > every> > application on the system has the character):> > WARNING: Glyph "├" > (0x251c, SF080000) not available in font "Times-Roman".> >> > The trouble > here is I now want to change this for the system as a whole,> > not just on > the document (I want to avoid any project using> > Times-Roman). I am curious > if there is some simple way under Linux to> > find out which fonts fop has > available, and how to change the default> > font family for all Docbook > publishing via a system-wide setting? I've> > found many documents on > modifying Docbook behavior within source code,> > but not much seems to exist > on system-wide Docbook configuration from a> > system administrator's point > of view...if anyone has a URL for> > information on specifics of tuning > Docbook defaults under Linux I'd be> > very happy!> >> > Thanks!> >> > ----- > Original Message -----> > From: stim...@comcast.net> > To: > docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> > Sent: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 23:20:24 -0000 > (UTC)> > Subject: [docbook-apps] Odd Characters in UTF-8, Docbook 5.1> > Hi,> > >> > I'm working on a Linux machine which has UTF-8 encoding. The docbook > 5.1> > I'm working with is declared:> > <?xml version="1.0" > encoding="utf-8"?>> > <!DOCTYPE book [> > <!ENTITY version "0.1 unreleased">> > > ]>> >> > Entities changed a while back (relaxng changed things), but so far > as I> > know I should still be able to work with numeric entities when using > odd> > characters which are part of UTF-8. I'm trying to get some box > drawing> > characters to work, specifically because I need to illustrate a > file> > directory structure which has been output like this from the "tree > -d"> > command. Here's a short sample:> >> tree -d -L 2 /etc | tail -n 20 | > tail -n 6> > │ ├── pluginconf.d> > │ ├── protected.d> > │ └── vars> > └── > yum.repos.d> >> > As you can see the vertical and horizontal box drawing > characters are> > used. When I redirect this to a file or copy and paste into > the document> > all I get is a substitute...each shows as "#". So I tried to > use numeric> > entities instead. As an example "boxh" (horizontal box line) > should work> > as "─". This does not work, and rendering still ends up > as "#". I> > tried the numeric code for the plus/minus character, > "|±|", and> > this does work. I don't know if it proves anything, but > since my UTF-8> > terminal shows all of the above characters just fine on a > terminal, it> > seems like the ability to output is not in question...perhaps > this is an> > invalid assumption.> >> > Btw, one reference on the Unicode > numeric value is from:> > > http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/iso-box.html> > >> > Under Docbook 5.1, what do I need to do to use this numeric entity > other> > than using UTF-8 and the numeric entity syntax? Is there an > additional> > XML declaration I need?> >> > Thanks!
