On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:23:56AM +1000, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 22 January 2015 at 08:55, Marco Ciampa <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:53:32PM +1000, Lex Trotman wrote:
> >> On 20 January 2015 at 05:57, Marco Ciampa <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > The uppercase omega letter (for resistor's Ohms) Ω does not render in pdf
> >> > dblatex (missin char)
> >>
> >> This is probably best asked on dblatex list, although someone here may 
> >> know.
> >>
> >> > and it is either not good in fop's pdfs (subscript
> >> > or differen size char).
> >>
> >> Are you sure you are using Ohm not Greek omega, there are separate
> >> code points I think.
> >
> > Ohm _is_ Greek omega. And I doubt that I have Ohm and not Greek omega
> > right with a simple key combination on my keyboard (specifically
> > AltGr+Shift+Q)
> 
> No, they are two different things, Greek capital Omega is U+03A9 and
> Ohm Sign is U+2126.  They might not display the same, but as we agree
> below, thats a font thing :)
> 
> >
> >> Otherwise its a font thing.
> >
> > I think it is precisely a font thing. I an few words: how to (easily)
> > change fonts with asciidoc dblatex front-end?
> 
> You set the fonts in the dblatex or FOP toolchains. Asciidoc and the
> docbook it produces are both content markup, not presentation markup,
> and so don't contain font information.
> 
> The dblatex docs have never been clear to me how to do it, best I can
> find is http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/xetex.font.html or
> its latex style I think.
> 
> Cheers
> Lex

Many thanks for the clarification.

Now I have to find out how to apply that configuration option to the
asciidoc toolchain ...

Any hint?

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