On 11/9/06, Darya Said-Akbari <> wrote:
> is there a way I can change the font in my DocBook
> XML. Sometimes I want use Unicode characters but the
> font does not cover these characters.
>
> In such cases I want to select the right font which
> handles these Unicode characters.
Hi,
We've run into this problem quite a bit. In our case, we use
Microsoft's Arial, which offers fairly large coverage of Unicode. The
markup we use is the <phrase> tag with a @role="unicode", which is
nice and semanitcally meaningless:
<para>Regular text here <phrase role="unicode"> $B>>K\(B $B9T90(B</phrase> more
normal stuff</para>
I match this like so:
<xsl:template match="phrase">
<xsl:variable name="depth">
<xsl:call-template name="dot.count">
<xsl:with-param name="string">
<xsl:number level="multiple"/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@role[contains(., 'unicode')]">
<fo:inline font-family="Arial Unicode MS"> <!-- whatever font
you like -->
<xsl:call-template name="inline.charseq"/>
</fo:inline>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$depth mod 2 = 1">
<fo:inline font-style="normal">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</fo:inline>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="inline.italicseq"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:template>
HTH,
Keith
