DOCBOOK CHARACTERS AND SYMBOLS
------------------------------

Some special characters for DB inline equations:

 LE  &#x2264;   less than or equal to
 GE  &#x2265;   greater than or equal to
 x   &#x00D7;   multiply                   
 div &#x00F7;   divide
 add &#x002B;   add
 pm  &#x00B1;   plus or minus              
 ne  &#x2260;   not equal to
 dot &#x2219;   dot operator (multiply)
 pi  &#x03C0;   small Greek letter pi
 Pi  &#x03A0;   capital Greek letter Pi

Dashes:

  figure dash     &#x2012; 
  en dash         &#x2013;       
  em dash         &#x2014; 
  quotation dash  &#x2015;
  swung dash      &#x2053;

Some unicode characters for spaces (see p. 330 in Bob Stayton's book):

 &#x00A0; &nbsp;    no-break space
 &#x2002; &ensp;    en space, half the width of an em space
 &#x2003; &emsp;    em space, usually equal to the type size of the font
 &#x2004; &emsp13;  1/3 em
 &#x2005; &emsp14;  1/4 em
 &#x2006;           1/6 em
 &#x2007; &numsp;   width of a digit
 &#x2008; &puncsp;  width of narrow punctuation
 &#x2009; &thinsp;  1/5 em
 &#x200A; &hairsp;  thinner than thin space

Other symbols:
 
 &#x00A9;           copyright
 &#x00AE;           registered sign
 &#x00B0;           degree symbol
 &#x2120;           service mark
 &#x2122;           trade mark

Note that the space character should butt against the adjacent
characters.

SVG EQUATIONS
-------------

To include fancier equations, do the following:

Use LibreOffice Math to write the equation.  Save the file as X.mml
where X is a suitable name.

Example mml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
 <semantics>
  <mrow>
   <mrow>
    <msub>
     <mi>P</mi>
     <mi>k</mi>
    </msub>
   </mrow>
  </mrow>
  <annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0">P_{k} = P_{{k}_{MAX}} left lbrace 1 -e^{[-k_{1}(x - x_{0})^{k_{2}}]} right rbrace </annotation>
 </semantics>
</math>

Edit the file to remove the "semantics" element. Ensure you add the
mml file to version control.

Use SVGMath to convert the file to a graphic:

  math2svg -s -o X.svg X.mml

Or you can use the bash script "make-svg.sh" (requires editing to suit
user preferences and paths) which creates the svg file in a
user-defined subdirectory and uses xmllint to format it ready for
further editing either with Inkscape or by hand.

Use Inkscape to view the svg file and edit it if necessary.  Be sure
to add the new file to version control in the text subdirectory.

Include the svg file in the desired place in DocBook source like this:

<equation id="X">
<title>General closed-form damage function formula</title>
<informalfigure>
<mediaobject>
  <imageobject role='xhtml'>
    <!-- centering title taken care of in css --> 
    <imagedata
       width='3in' scalefit='1'
       fileref="./X.svg"
    />
  </imageobject>
  <imageobject role='fo'>
    <imagedata
       align='center'
       format="SVG"
       fileref="./X.svg"
    />
  </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</informalfigure>
</equation>


SVG AND PDF FONT PROBLEMS
-------------------------

Note there can be font problems for pdf with complex equations.  Querying the
fop mailing list sheds light on the situation:

<quote>
from: Vincent Hennebert vhennebert@gmail.com via xmlgraphics.apache.org 
sender-time: Sent at 05:07 (GMT+01:00). Current time there: 2:23 PM.
reply-to: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
to: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
date: Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:07
subject: Re: Missing Font for SVG to PDF Output
mailing list: <fop-users.xmlgraphics.apache.org>; mailed by xmlgraphics.apache.org
...

Make sure that the family name you declare in fop.xconf matches the
name under which the font is known on the system.

Let's take the font "Linux Libertine" an example. Java would know this
font under that name. Since Batik uses the Java font system, it will
also use that name and pass it on to FOP. So you must have a
font-triplet in your fop.xconf that matches that name:

   <font embed-url="libertine.ttf">
     <font-triplet name="Linux Libertine" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
   </font>

If you use something else, FOP will find no match for "LinuxLibertine"
and will fall back to a default font.

You can use the
java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames method to
know under which names Java registers the fonts on your system. Of
course, be sure to also use those names in the SVG file.
</quote>


MARKS FOR ITEMIZED LIST
-----------------------

Itemized list symbols defined in the docbook/fo stylesheets that work with the
current BRL-CAD environment:

  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='none'"></xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='disc'">&#x2022;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='bullet'">&#x2022;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='endash'">&#x2013;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='emdash'">&#x2014;</xsl:when>

    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='square'">&#x25A0;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='box'">&#x25A0;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='smallblacksquare'">&#x25AA;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='circle'">&#x25CB;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='opencircle'">&#x25CB;</xsl:when>

    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='whitesquare'">&#x25A1;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='smallwhitesquare'">&#x25AB;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='round'">&#x25CF;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='blackcircle'">&#x25CF;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='whitebullet'">&#x25E6;</xsl:when>

    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='triangle'">&#x2023;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol='point'">&#x203A;</xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>&#x25CF;</xsl:otherwise><!-- bullet -->
  </xsl:choose>

The default marks for html nested itemized lists are:

  disc
    circle
      square

and they appear as small marks in html.  Note that html only
recognizes those mark names so we acdept those defaults and they look
okay.

For pdf, the same mark names appear too large and we have customized
the defaults marks as follows:

<xsl:template name="next.itemsymbol">
  <xsl:param name="itemsymbol" select="'default'"/>
  <xsl:choose>
    <!-- Change this list if you want to change the order of symbols -->
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol = 'bullet'">whitebullet</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$itemsymbol = 'whitebullet'">smallblacksquare</xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>bullet</xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>


For non-default pdf list markers modify the 'mark' attribute for the
<itemizedlist>, e.g.,

  <itemizedlist mark='bullet'>        <!-- a small black dot    -->
  ...
  <itemizedlist mark='whitebullet'>   <!-- a small white circle -->


EPS AND OTHER GRAPHICS
----------------------

eps and pdf are not handled well in fop currently.

Use png or tiff for html and svg for fop.

Use scribus (http://www.scribus.net) to convert eps to svg.

Use gimp (http://www.gimp.org) to scale or edit png images.

To center an image in html, use css:

  div.mediaobject {
    text-align: center;
  }

A TEMPLATE FOR A FORMAL FIGURE AND INCLUDED IMAGES
--------------------------------------------------

To better control images for html and pdf, use different attributes
according to role in the DB source.  Following is a template that
gives the basic attributes to do that.  Note the filerefs are the
same, but, in this case, the image widths are specified differently.
It sometimes it takes a bit of trial and error to get the right
attributes and values.  See Reference 2, p. 290, for much more detail.

  <!-- ************************************ -->
  <figure>
    <title>???</title>
    <mediaobject>
      <imageobject role='html'>
        <imagedata
           align="center"
           contwidthwidth='4.5in' scalefit='1'
           fileref="./images/vbox/"
         />
      </imageobject>
      <imageobject role='fo'>
        <imagedata
           align="center"
           width='4.5in' scalefit='1'
           fileref="./images/vbox/"
         />
      </imageobject>
      <textobject>
        <phrase>a picture</phrase>
      </textobject>
    </mediaobject>
  </figure>


REFERENCES
----------

1. Norman Walsh, "DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide," May 2010, O'Reilly
   Media, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, ISBN: 978-0-596-80502-9.

2. Bob Stayton, "DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide," Fourth Edition,
   September 2007, Sagehill Enterprises, Santa Cruz, CA, ISBN:
   978-0-9741521-3-4.
