Re: # characters for Base-14 fonts

[Ryan Lortie]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 22:22 +0200, Andreas Delmelle wrote:
> Not sure what the cause of the issue is (yet), but as for a final  
> try, the following seems to produce desirable results:
> 
> <fo:block font-family="serif, Symbol">
>    (<fo:character character="&#x2191;"/>1) (+2) (<fo:character  
> character="&#x2200;"/>3) (text)
> </fo:block>

This is a fascinating discovery.  It's very strange that that works
properly.

In any case, I can probably write an XSLT template to scan all text
regions for 'special' characters and emit markup like that for them.
That's a sufficient workaround for my tastes.

> Strictly speaking, semantically, this comes down to the same thing as  
> omitting the fo:character object, and inserting the characters  
> directly, so FOP definitely has some issue here.

Is there an issue tracker that I should report this to?


> HTH!

It has a lot.  Thanks :)


Cheers


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