[xep-support] Scrambled characters with TrueType and small-caps

[Jean-Baptiste Quenot]

Hello,

Thank you  for providing XEP, it's  a great piece of  software.  Today I
decided  to give  it a  try to  get high-quality  rendering for  Docbook
stuff: XEP has a good reputation.

However, I've  come across  what I  would call a  bug.  Let  me explain:
before using XEP, I didn't know that small-caps were not supported, so I
tried to  process the document with  small-caps in it.  As  long as it's
not supported, no problem you would  say.  But my document is also using
a TrueType  font for rendering text,  and this is where  things begin to
hurt: the characters in the document begin to scramble.

As a meaningful demonstration is always better than words, here it is:

The XSL-FO document:
http://caraldi.com/jbq/test.fo

The resulting PDF generated by XEP:
http://caraldi.com/jbq/test-xep.pdf

The  second  line  should  read: « A  paragraph  of  text »  but  it  is
unreadable as you  can see.  I would  expect XEP at least  to ignore the
small-caps setting and render text correctly.

To reproduce  the problem,  please define  a TrueType  font in  your XEP
configuration file, and reference it in the font-family attribute of the
root element of the FO document.

BTW, is it planned to add support for small-caps in the future?  How can
I work around this limitation, is there an XSL trick to do that?

Thanks in advance  for your help, and  kudos to the whole  team for your
great program.  Besides this little annoying bug, nothing to say!
-- 
Jean-Baptiste Quenot
http://caraldi.com/jbq/
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