[daisy] Symbols and tables...

[Bruno Dumon]

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 15:55 +0000, Tim McDonald wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve just discovered daisy and it’s really impressive book publishing
> components. I’m happily transferring a technical data book from MS
> word but I’ve experiences two problems.
> 
>  
> 
> 1) One of the symbols used within the book ‘nabla’ (aka an upside down
> delta) appears correctly in the editor and webpage but mysteriously
> changes to a Ñ character when I publish a book. Any idea where I’m
> going wrong? (The site is hosted on a debian linux box if that’s any
> help).

Most likely the character is not supported in the default PDF fonts.

The PDF engine used for the books is called Ibex.

Never looked into this myself, but chapter 7.5 of this pdf should help:
http://www.xmlpdf.com/builds/ibexj.pdf
 
> 
> 2) Lots of the tables in the document are getting split over two
> pages, can this be prevented? (i.e. is their an equivalent to the
> latex float environment)

Assuming XSL-FO supports this, this could be done by adding a class on
the tables you don't want to split, and adjusting the
publicationtypes/pdf/html-to-xslfo.xsl to handle that table class.

Maybe this helps you get started, if not you can always ask for more
questions.

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