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. Could another option be to find a font that contains all
unicode characters? 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?
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
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