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Posted to dev@forrest.apache.org by Oliver Vecernik <ol...@aon.at> on 2003/11/03 08:42:49 UTC
some newbie questions
Hi all,
I recently started with Forrest to build my site and I immediately felt
in love with it. But at the beginning there are some questions left even
after reading the FAQ. ;-)
It is a quite new technology for me, so please be patient...
1. It's going to be a German site, but didn't find the place where to
tell. I'd like to have all the texts (Search, footer, ...) translated.
I'll start using it as a static site. How is this achieved?
2. My surname contains a c-caron (Č) and it's rendered correctly
most of the time. Only in skinconf.xml->trail and when rendering to PDF
it's displayed as '#' or '?' respectively. You can easily find this on
the first page under:
http://members.aon.at/vecernik/forrest/
Is this a Bug?
3. I put my favicon.ico under ./src/documentation/content/ and it is
copied to ./build/site, but I can't see it. How do I activate it?
4. I'd like to adapt the skin to my needs. Under 'Using Forrest' there
is an advice to copy xml-forrest/src/resources/skins/template, but there
is no such directory (I pulled the latest CVS code).
Regards,
Oliver
Re: some newbie questions
Posted by Christian Geisert <ch...@isu-gmbh.de>.
Oliver Vecernik wrote:
> Christian Geisert schrieb:
[..]
>> For the PDF see http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-characters
>> (it seems c-caron is not part of ISO Latin1)
>
> I'm no font expert, but as far as I know it is part of ISO Latin2. But
> I've rendered it already correctly from other programs and if I look at
> the PDF spec (V1.3) the caron should be at 031 (octal). But it is also
You need a c-caron, caron is not enough ;-)
And c-caron is not part of the standard PDF fonts. So you need to use
(and embed) a custom font for the PDF.
> renderd to a `?' in the trail altough it is rendered correctly just the
> line under the trail. That's why I was asking if this is a bug.
The problem with the trail sounds like a bug (and is very likely not
related to the PDF problem). How does the html source for the c-caron
look like?
Christian
Re: some newbie questions
Posted by Oliver Vecernik <ol...@aon.at>.
Christian Geisert schrieb:
> Oliver Vecernik wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I recently started with Forrest to build my site and I immediately felt
>> in love with it. But at the beginning there are some questions left even
>> after reading the FAQ. ;-)
>
>
> Read more FAQs ;-)
Hi Christian!
As you know you can never read enough...
> For the PDF see http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-characters
> (it seems c-caron is not part of ISO Latin1)
I'm no font expert, but as far as I know it is part of ISO Latin2. But
I've rendered it already correctly from other programs and if I look at
the PDF spec (V1.3) the caron should be at 031 (octal). But it is also
renderd to a `?' in the trail altough it is rendered correctly just the
line under the trail. That's why I was asking if this is a bug.
Regards,
Oliver
Re: some newbie questions
Posted by Christian Geisert <ch...@isu-gmbh.de>.
Oliver Vecernik wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently started with Forrest to build my site and I immediately felt
> in love with it. But at the beginning there are some questions left even
> after reading the FAQ. ;-)
Read more FAQs ;-)
[..]
> 2. My surname contains a c-caron (Č) and it's rendered correctly
> most of the time. Only in skinconf.xml->trail and when rendering to PDF
> it's displayed as '#' or '?' respectively. You can easily find this on
> the first page under:
>
> http://members.aon.at/vecernik/forrest/
>
> Is this a Bug?
For the PDF see http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-characters
(it seems c-caron is not part of ISO Latin1)
Christian
Re: some newbie questions
Posted by Jason End <be...@yahoo.com>.
I think the skin template was moved to the core
folder:
xml-forrest/src/core/context/skins/template/
That's what I see on the CVS; I don't have access to
my forrest site right now.
Jay
--- Oliver Vecernik <ol...@aon.at> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently started with Forrest to build my site and
> I immediately felt
> in love with it. But at the beginning there are some
> questions left even
> after reading the FAQ. ;-)
>
> It is a quite new technology for me, so please be
> patient...
>
>
> 1. It's going to be a German site, but didn't find
> the place where to
> tell. I'd like to have all the texts (Search,
> footer, ...) translated.
> I'll start using it as a static site. How is this
> achieved?
>
> 2. My surname contains a c-caron (Č) and it's
> rendered correctly
> most of the time. Only in skinconf.xml->trail and
> when rendering to PDF
> it's displayed as '#' or '?' respectively. You can
> easily find this on
> the first page under:
>
> http://members.aon.at/vecernik/forrest/
>
> Is this a Bug?
>
> 3. I put my favicon.ico under
> ./src/documentation/content/ and it is
> copied to ./build/site, but I can't see it. How do I
> activate it?
>
> 4. I'd like to adapt the skin to my needs. Under
> 'Using Forrest' there
> is an advice to copy
> xml-forrest/src/resources/skins/template, but there
> is no such directory (I pulled the latest CVS code).
>
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
>
>
>
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