RE : RE : [fop-users] [sigma] print greek sigma character on fop 0.20.5

[EXT / FOCAL VANDEPUTTE Brice <ex...@sncf.fr>]

Wonderful ! :o)

1- You're right i miss-read the previous post of Andreas and so my previous answer was wrong. Sorry.
2- I was testing this when I receive your post :
Sigma = "<fo:block font-family=\"Symbol\">&#83;</fo:block>"; // Print '#'



3- Your script is the good one !! :
Sigma = "<fo:inline font-family=\"Symbol\">&#x03A3;</fo:inline>";

Thanks a lot
Brice Vandeputte

-----Message d'origine-----
De : William Gilbert [mailto:gilbert@informagen.com] 
Envoyé : mardi 29 novembre 2005 18:59
À : fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Objet : Re: RE : [fop-users] [sigma] print greek sigma character on fop 0.20.5


>> I would like to print a sigma character on my generated PDF
>>
>> I use FOP version 0.20.5 and I can't change this version.
>
> The Numeric Character References should work, provided the font
> you're using has a glyph for the desired character... (# means that
> the used font doesn't have a glyph for sigma)
>

Try this.....

A "greek character" indeed has a unicode value but only the "Symbol"  
font has a "glyph" for that unicode character.  A glyph is the way a  
character is drawn on the screen or on paper.

     <fo:inline font-family="Symbol">&#x03A3;</fo:inline>

Now, encoding these in your incoming XML is another trick entirely!!  
One which I have not entirely mastered but have been successful with.

--will gilbert

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