Re: moving away from SGML to XML

[Kamal Dalal <kamal at banoora dot net>]

Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> FOP is a Java-based processor to generate typeset documents (e.g.
> PDF's). PassiveTeX does the same thing but is written in TeX. I have fop
> now setup on sina so I was able to generate PDF's fine (English ones).
>
> But with Arabic PDF's I get "####" for Arabic characters since the font
> doesn't have the required glyphs. Not sure how it all ties in together.

Are you refering to Apache FOP ? AFAIK it does not have bidi implemented 
yet. So even when you manage to embed the font, it will be bidi-less.

> > 2. You could play with the padding and margin for the
> > bullets in general.
>
>
> Right.. but not the direction.

I haven't seen the HTML file in question, but maybe an align="right" can 
make a difference.

Regards,
Kamal