Frank, is your solution meeting all your needs (with the corrections you've made?)
If so, perhaps put in a change request to docbook? regards On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 15:07, Frank Steimke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear List Members, > > i had already sent this to the docbook List, but probably this list > docbook-apps fits better. > > I am using DocBook for a bi-lingual book. Most of the content is written in > english, but parts are written in the german language. PDF is produced with > XSL Stylesheets 1.79.2 shipped within Oxygen 24 and the Antenna House > Formatter v7. > > Since most content is english, /book/@xml:lang is 'en'. Fragments in german > have @xml:lang='de' at the appropriate level, e. g. for section or note > elements. Sometimes i have phrase or emphasis elements only because of the > @xml:lang attribute. > > Observation is, that hyphenation is wrong in the PDF Document for the german > fragments. I think i have found the reason, but i am puzzled. There are two > issues which i can't understand: > > 1) There is a template named "language.attribute" in I10n.xsl. It calculates > the language value looking at the ancestor axis, and emits an attribute named > @lang with that value. First Issue: the name of the attribute is wrong, the > correct name is @language. See section 7.10.2 "Language" in Extensible > Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1. > > 2) The template named "language.attribute" is rarely used. 2nd Issue: I had > to create a customization layer for the templates that matches d:para or > d:simpara, which do emit an fo:block element, so that they call the > language.attribute template. Same for d:phrase and d:emphasis in inline.xsl > > Maybe i have missed something obvious. Are there any reasons for this lack of > language support? > > Sincerely, Frank Steimke -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
