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Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:	Online Bookbuilding
Notice:	This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:	VAXUUM::UTT

Created:	Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:	Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	440
Total number of notes:	2134

401.0. "Accent Mark Not Showing on Bookreader" by REGENT::WHALEN () Fri Jan 25 1991 10:23

    I'm writing a programming supplement for our PostScript 
    printers. In the .sdml file, I've used the following 
    DOCUMENT tag and keyword to show the grave accent mark: 
    <accent>(grave). This mark prints on the paper version 
    of the document but does not appear on the screen in the 
    bookreader version of the document.
    
    I've also tried the following DOCUMENT coding technique:
    <delayed><accent>(grave)<enddelayed>. This does not show
    the accent mark either.
    
    Could someone show me the solution to this? I have to get 
    the book to production on 29 January. 
    
    Thanks

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
401.1	No such character in ISOLatin1	MJFITZ::FITZELL	got those multi authoring cross platform blues	`Fri Jan 25 1991 14:48`	7
	The ACUTE ,GRAVE, UMLAUT accent marks are not part of the ISOLatin character set which is the one used by the Bookreader. The reason you get it in PS output is that PS fonts have composite characters and the converter knows where the accent characters are that are used to make the composite characters. MIke
401.2	chars not available online	OLD::UTT	Mary Utt	`Fri Jan 25 1991 14:49`	13
	From V2.0 Release Notes, "Known Problems and Restrictions": "Arguments to <ACCENT> ignored in Bookreader "The arguments to the <ACCENT> tag -- umlaut, grave, and acute -- have no effect in online books." These characters are not available in the DECwindows screen fonts; thus, they cannot be displayed by the Bookreader. Mary