On 09.03.2005 17:07:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok so I think the only way out it to pre process my xml file to mark > special characters so that I can them easily find them in my xsl > document.
Good idea if that's possible. > Could another option be to find a font that contains all > unicode characters? Sure, if such a beast exists. > How difficult is it to embed a special font that > would work both on Mac and PC? Do you have any pointers on how to do > this? Simply get a PC-compatible font. It should also work on the Mac since FOP doesn't use the Mac's font system in case of PDFs. If you have such a font simply follow the instruction for custom fonts. HTH > Thanks, > > Patrick > > > On 9 mars 05, at 17:01, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > Oops, sorry. Hmm, you've got a problem there. That's actually something > > that would (in theory) be handled like this: > > > > <fo:inline font-family="Helvetica, ZapfDingbats">Some text ★ More > > text</fo:inline> > > > > FOP should (again in theory) automatically switch to ZapfDingbats if > > Helvetica doesn't contain a character. The problem is that FOP doesn't > > do that, yet. > > > > Working around this in XSLT is next to impossible (I think), which > > leaves a special preprocessor that inserts special fo:inlines as > > necessary but in this case you could just as well try to implement that > > directly in FOP. It'll not be so simple. > > > > <fx type="head-scratching"/> > > > > On 09.03.2005 16:49:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> This is not really what I am trying to achieve. I know that I can > >> handle special characters using the ZapfDingbats font. However what I > >> don't know to do is parse a text content to encapsulate <fo:inline> > >> element each time such a special character is found. > >> > >> So tranforming: > >> > >> "Some text ★ More text" > >> > >> To: > >> > >> <fo:inline font-family="Helvetica"> Some text <fo:inline > >> font-family="ZapfDingbats">★</fo:inline> More text </fo:inline> > >> > >> > >> Patrick > >> > >> On 9 mars 05, at 16:41, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > >> > >>> Lots of examples in the distribution, for example: > >>> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/examples/fo/basic/fonts.fo? > >>> rev=1.3&view=markup > >>> > >>> ...and in the documentation: > >>> http://xml.apache.org/fop/fo.html#xml-special-chars > >>> > >>> > >>> On 09.03.2005 10:21:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I need to display in a pdf file some text that contains different > >>>> type > >>>> of characters: some are ascii type but other are special ones like > >>>> the > >>>> 'star' or 'square' characters. I understand from what I have read > >>>> that > >>>> those special characters are not available in the default Helvetica > >>>> or > >>>> Courier base font and that I need to use the ZapfDingbats font. > >>>> > >>>> So what I need to achieve is transform the following XML content: > >>>> > >>>> "Some text ™˚ More text" > >>>> > >>>> Into: > >>>> > >>>> <fo:inline font-family="Helvetica"> Some text <fo:inline > >>>> font-family="ZapfDingbats">™˚</fo:inline> More text </fo:inline> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> How can this be done using XSL to create the proper FO document > >>>> knowing > >>>> that I don't know in advance what the text to translate looks like > >>>> and > >>>> how many 'special' characters it contains (ex > >>>> 'asdf™˚as™¡df™˚as™£d™˛™ƒfasd™˚') > >>>> > >>>> Thanks for any tips! > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Patrick > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Jeremias Maerki > >>> > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > Jeremias Maerki > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
