Émilien Tlapale wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to use asciidoc to generate a PDF but when I do it it wants > to compute my initials and I got an error. Indeed my firstname initial > letter is É and as the text is encoded in UTF-8 it is multibytes. > However the initials computation is done by: > > initials = firstname[:1] + middlename[:1] + lastname[:1] > > and because `firstname' is an `str' it has a single byte access (at > least on my Python 2.5.1). So firstname[:1] will not return É but Ã.
A workaround would be to explicitly set the initials attribute in your document header e.g.: :Author Initials: JB > > > Nothing to do with it but a2x searches for a fop.sh and on my Gentoo fop > installation i only got a fop in /usr/bin. > > > I am using asciidoc 8.2.3. > > ++ Émilien TLAPALE > > _______________________________________________ > Asciidoc-discuss mailing list > Asciidoc-discuss@metaperl.com > http://metaperl.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asciidoc-discuss > Cheers, Stuart _______________________________________________ Asciidoc-discuss mailing list Asciidoc-discuss@metaperl.com http://metaperl.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asciidoc-discuss
