Re: inline macros for Unicode character entities?

[Gour]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:04:18 +1300
Stuart Rackham <srack...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You could define an attribute in your document e.g.
> 
> :sun: &#x2609;
> 
> Then refer to it with {sun}

I tried with:

// Grahas
:ravi: &#x2609;
:candra: &#x263D; 
:kuja: &#x2642;
:buddha: &#x263f;
:guru: &#x2643;
:sukra: &#x2640;   
:sani: &#x2644;
:rahu: &#x260A;
:ketu: &#x260B;

// Rasis
:mesa: &#x2648; 
:vrsabha: &#x2649; 
:mithuna: &#x264a; 
:kataka: &#x264b; 
:simha: &#x264c; 
:kanya: &#x264d; 
:tula: &#x264e; 
:vrscika: &#x264f; 
:dhanus: &#x2650; 
:makara: &#x2651; 
:kumbha: &#x2652; 
:mina: &#x2653;   

and then referenced them later with:

Astro symbols: Symbol for the Sun is {ravi}, for the Moon is {candra},
etc. {kuja} {buddha} {guru} {sukra} {sani} {rahu} {ketu}

{mesa} {vrsabha} {mithuna} {kataka} {simha} {kanya} {tula} {vrscika}
{dhanus} {makara} {kumbha} {mina}

and it works nicely for HTML output.

Otoh, invoking:

a2x -f pdf -v article.txt

gives:

XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.3.2)
===================================================
Image 'dblatex' not found
Missing character &#x2609;
Missing character &#x263d;
Missing character &#x263f;
Missing character &#x2643;
Missing character &#x2644;
Missing character &#x260a;
Missing character &#x260b;
Build article.pdf
built-in module pdftex registered
no support found for ifxetex
no support found for fontspec
no support found for xltxtra
no support found for fontenc
no support found for inputenc
no support found for fancybox
built-in module makeidx registered
no support found for asciidoc-dblatex
built-in module bibtopic registered
building additional files...
checking if compiling is necessary...
the output file doesn't exist
pdflatex -interaction=batchmode article.tex
pdflatex failed
article.tex:98: Undefined control sequence \male.
article.tex:98: leading text: ...9;, for the Moon is \&\#x263d;, etc. \male
article.tex:98: Undefined control sequence \venus.
article.tex:98: leading text: ... etc. \male{} \&\#x263f; \&\#x2643; \venus
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \aries.
article.tex:100: leading text: \aries
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \taurus.
article.tex:100: leading text: \aries{} \taurus
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \gemini.
article.tex:100: leading text: \aries{} \taurus{} \gemini
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \cancer.
article.tex:100: leading text: \aries{} \taurus{} \gemini{} \cancer
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \leo.
article.tex:100: leading text: \aries{} \taurus{} \gemini{} \cancer{} \leo
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \virgo.
article.tex:100: leading text: ...aurus{} \gemini{} \cancer{} \leo{} \virgo
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \libra.
article.tex:100: leading text: ...gemini{} \cancer{} \leo{} \virgo{} \libra
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \scorpio.
article.tex:100: leading text: ...ancer{} \leo{} \virgo{} \libra{} \scorpio
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \sagittarius.
article.tex:100: leading text: ...\virgo{} \libra{} \scorpio{} \sagittarius
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \capricornus.
article.tex:100: leading text: ...{} \scorpio{} \sagittarius{} \capricornus
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \aquarius.
article.tex:100: leading text: ...} \sagittarius{} \capricornus{} \aquarius
article.tex:100: Undefined control sequence \pisces.
article.tex:100: leading text: ...rius{} \capricornus{} \aquarius{} \pisces
Unexpected error occured
a2x: deleting /home/gour/tmp/fossil/asciidoc-8.6.7/doc/article.xml


so I wonder what's missing to get desired output via a2x using dblatex
toolchain?


Sincerely,
Gour

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