Subject: RE: Entity files for Jade/DocBook? From: MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wroth, Mark) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:40:44 -0800 |
I've been using Word 7.0 (Word 95), and it appears not to choke on the Unicode specified characters -- it just produces either the wrong glyph or a question mark (depending on the character in question). For example, &agr; produces the glyph I would have expected for (IIRC) é (the specific example is at home at the moment, so I'm going from memory). But I'm having a conceptual problem with your suggestion to use the math flow objects. I thought that by the time the DSSSL process was underway, the SGML parser had already replaced entity references with their definitions? So how would one apply a flow object to a defined entity? Obviously I'm either ignorant or confused (or both :-). Does it matter that I'm attempting to use DocBook without extension (i.e. without adding elements to the DTD for math markup [yet, anyway; I'm finding pure DocBook's lack of math markup to be a problem, but have not yet attacked the question of how to extend it])? -----Original Message----- From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 04, 1999 9:31 AM To: dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Entity files for Jade/DocBook? > I have now come to believe that there is no way to specify an > SGML entity which will process through Jade to the RTF backend and > result in a glyph not in the "standard" font (e.g. a lowercase alpha, > &agr; or α). I thought that newer versions of Word had native unicode support? (Not that I have ever used Word at all). What does work, if you just need to access a few special characters, is to use the math flow objects and then jade's rtf back end will set up the rtf to use equation editor syntax to get at the greek letters. This probably isn't too good if you are aiming to write large sections of Greek text though. David DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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