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Small-Caps support in FOP 0.95
by nancy_b
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Hi all,
My environment: Docbook stylesheets, XSLTPROC, FOP 0.95 I would like to produce some headings in allcaps. So I've added the following in my customization layer: <xsl:template match="emphasis[@role = 'smallcaps']"> <fo:inline font-variant="small-caps"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </fo:inline> </xsl:template> In my source file I entered: <emphasis role="smallcaps">Example</emphasis> After compiling a PDF, guess what happened? Nothing :-( Do you have any idea how to solve this, folks? Thanks a lot in advance!!! |
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Re: Small-Caps support in FOP 0.95
by Vincent Hennebert-2
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Hi Nancy,
nancy_b wrote: > Hi all, > > My environment: Docbook stylesheets, XSLTPROC, FOP 0.95 > I would like to produce some headings in allcaps. So I've added the > following in my customization layer: > <xsl:template match="emphasis[@role = 'smallcaps']"> > <fo:inline font-variant="small-caps"> > <xsl:apply-templates/> > </fo:inline> > </xsl:template> > > In my source file I entered: > <emphasis role="smallcaps">Example</emphasis> > > After compiling a PDF, guess what happened? Nothing :-( The font-variant property is not supported by FOP. All you can do is implement tricks to work around that missing feature. You could fake small capitals by transforming the piece of text into capitals and reducing the font size to, e.g., 70%: <fo:block>E<fo:inline font-size="70%">XAMPLE</fo:inline>...</fo:block> Probably the easiest, but the result will look ugly. If you know which font you are going to use, know that that font has glyphs for small capitals, know the Unicode code points of those glyphs, then you could replace every letter with the appropriate codepoint and you will get the true small capitals. Much less easy, but the result will look good. For example, the Junicode font [1] has glyphs for small capitals. Those glyphs are stored in the ‘Private Use Area’ range of the Unicode standard, from U+F761 to U+F77A (non-accented versions only...). So you would have to produce the following: <fo:block font-family="Junicode">E and the rest of the text...</fo:block> Who said cryptic? :-) This is more or less how the font-variant property would work. [1] http://junicode.sourceforge.net/ > Do you have any idea how to solve this, folks? > > Thanks a lot in advance!!! HTH, Vincent --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-help@... |
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Re: Small-Caps support in FOP 0.95
by nancy_b
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Hi Vincent,
First of all, thanks a lot for your response! I was extremely surprised to discover that such a basic functionality as smallcaps is unsupported. Is there any intention to add support for this feature in the next FOP version? My best wishes, Nancy
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Re: Small-Caps support in FOP 0.95
by Vincent Hennebert-2
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Hi Nancy,
nancy_b wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > First of all, thanks a lot for your response! I was extremely surprised to > discover that such a basic functionality as smallcaps is unsupported. Is > there any intention to add support for this feature in the next FOP version? Not to my knowledge. And it’s not as basic a functionality as you may think :-) This requires to look in the font file if glyphs are available for the small-caps variant. The OpenType font format provides this functionality, but I’m not sure about the others (TrueType, Type1). And FOP’s font library needs to be taught how to get that information. Vincent > My best wishes, > Nancy > > > Vincent Hennebert-2 wrote: >> Hi Nancy, >> >> nancy_b wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> My environment: Docbook stylesheets, XSLTPROC, FOP 0.95 >>> I would like to produce some headings in allcaps. So I've added the >>> following in my customization layer: >>> <xsl:template match="emphasis[@role = 'smallcaps']"> >>> <fo:inline font-variant="small-caps"> >>> <xsl:apply-templates/> >>> </fo:inline> >>> </xsl:template> >>> >>> In my source file I entered: >>> <emphasis role="smallcaps">Example</emphasis> >>> >>> After compiling a PDF, guess what happened? Nothing :-( >> The font-variant property is not supported by FOP. All you can do is >> implement tricks to work around that missing feature. >> >> You could fake small capitals by transforming the piece of text into >> capitals and reducing the font size to, e.g., 70%: >> <fo:block>E<fo:inline font-size="70%">XAMPLE</fo:inline>...</fo:block> >> Probably the easiest, but the result will look ugly. >> >> If you know which font you are going to use, know that that font has >> glyphs for small capitals, know the Unicode code points of those >> glyphs, then you could replace every letter with the appropriate >> codepoint and you will get the true small capitals. Much less easy, but >> the result will look good. >> >> For example, the Junicode font [1] has glyphs for small capitals. Those >> glyphs are stored in the ‘Private Use Area’ range of the Unicode >> standard, from U+F761 to U+F77A (non-accented versions only...). So you >> would have to produce the following: >> <fo:block >> font-family="Junicode">E >> and the rest of the text...</fo:block> >> >> Who said cryptic? :-) >> >> This is more or less how the font-variant property would work. >> >> [1] http://junicode.sourceforge.net/ >> >> >>> Do you have any idea how to solve this, folks? >>> >>> Thanks a lot in advance!!! >> >> HTH, >> Vincent --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-help@... |
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