I use Arial Unicode MS too as a backup symbol font. You can add it to the
stylesheet parameter named symbol.font.family as described here:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SpecialChars.html
It becomes a fallback font if a character isn't in your main font.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Fahlgren" <>
To: "Darya Said-Akbari" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] How to change the font?
> 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
>
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