Hi Vincent, First of all, thanks a lot for your response! I was extremely surprised to discover that such a basic functionality as smallcaps is unsupported. Is there any intention to add support for this feature in the next FOP version?
My best wishes, Nancy Vincent Hennebert-2 wrote: > > Hi Nancy, > > nancy_b wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My environment: Docbook stylesheets, XSLTPROC, FOP 0.95 >> I would like to produce some headings in allcaps. So I've added the >> following in my customization layer: >> <xsl:template match="emphas...@role = 'smallcaps']"> >> <fo:inline font-variant="small-caps"> >> <xsl:apply-templates/> >> </fo:inline> >> </xsl:template> >> >> In my source file I entered: >> <emphasis role="smallcaps">Example</emphasis> >> >> After compiling a PDF, guess what happened? Nothing :-( > > The font-variant property is not supported by FOP. All you can do is > implement tricks to work around that missing feature. > > You could fake small capitals by transforming the piece of text into > capitals and reducing the font size to, e.g., 70%: > <fo:block>E<fo:inline font-size="70%">XAMPLE</fo:inline>...</fo:block> > Probably the easiest, but the result will look ugly. > > If you know which font you are going to use, know that that font has > glyphs for small capitals, know the Unicode code points of those > glyphs, then you could replace every letter with the appropriate > codepoint and you will get the true small capitals. Much less easy, but > the result will look good. > > For example, the Junicode font [1] has glyphs for small capitals. Those > glyphs are stored in the ‘Private Use Area’ range of the Unicode > standard, from U+F761 to U+F77A (non-accented versions only...). So you > would have to produce the following: > <fo:block > font-family="Junicode">E > and the rest of the text...</fo:block> > > Who said cryptic? :-) > > This is more or less how the font-variant property would work. > > [1] http://junicode.sourceforge.net/ > > >> Do you have any idea how to solve this, folks? >> >> Thanks a lot in advance!!! > > > HTH, > Vincent > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Small-Caps-support-in-FOP-0.95-tp25895574p25907416.html Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
