[xep-support] Problem with greek characters in chapter titles using some fonts

[Alexander Peshkov]

Hello Marc,

Here is an excerpt from your greek.fo:

  <fo:block font-family="Helvetica" font-weight="bold" keep-with-next.within-column="always" space-before.minimum="0.8em" space-before.optimum="1.0em" space-before.maximum="1.2em">
      <fo:marker marker-class-name="section.head.marker">
        Affiches pr&#xE9;sent&#xE9;es &#xE0; des congr&#xE8;s avec phospholipase et
        prot&#xE9;ines membranaires trying &#x3B1; &#x3B2; &#x3B6; type tonneau
        &#x3B2;
      </fo:marker>
      <fo:block font-size="20.736pt">
        Affiches pr&#xE9;sent&#xE9;es &#xE0; des congr&#xE8;s avec phospholipase et
        prot&#xE9;ines membranaires trying &#x3B1; &#x3B2; &#x3B6; type tonneau
        &#x3B2;
      </fo:block>
  </fo:block>

As you can see your title text wrapped in a block with
font-family="Helvetica" and this font has no glyphs for Greek
characters. However on fo:root there is a font-family="Helvetica,Symbol,ZapfDingbats"
(in addition some parts of the body text of your document is also wrapped in
fo:block with font-family="Helvetica,Symbol,ZapfDingbats"). Since
Symbol has all necessary glyphs, Greek character in the body text
rendered correctly. So XEP behavior is absolutely correct and the
problem is in XSLT stylesheets. Please contact a maintainer of your
stylesheets for an advise regarding this issue.

Best regards,
Alexander Peshkov                             mailto:peshkov at renderx.com
RenderX

MB> Hi,

MB> please find a complete mini-example (source, fo, pdf) at

MB> http://baaden.nerim.net/pub/greek.tar

MB> let me know, if you need further information.

MB> Thanks for looking into that,
MB> Marc


>>>> Alexander Peshkov said:
MB>  >> Hello Marc,
MB>  >> 
MB>  >> I believe this problem has nothing to do with XEP itself but rather
MB>  >> caused by XSLT (customization or native Docbook stylesheets) which
MB>  >> generate inadequate XSL FO. Could you please send me a problematic XSL
MB>  >> FO file?
MB>  >> 
MB>  >> Best regards,
MB>  >> Alexander Peshkov                             mailto:peshkov at renderx.com
MB>  >> RenderX


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