[cl-typesetting-devel] umlauts

[Kilian Sprotte]

Hi,

in order to have some fun writing my diploma thesis, I have started  
using Peters markup package. Sorry, if this is a little off-topic and  
also not knowing much about typesetting in general, but I just wanted  
to ask you about german umlauts...

I am doing this on unicode enabled sbcl, so I thought its easiest to  
write my markup in utf-8 encoding, since this seems to be sbcl  
default format for reading in the file.

So far so good - html works easily after adding a little encoding  
information to the header - but now I do not know what to do for the  
pdf...

I thought maybe setting (setq pdf::*default-encoding* :unicode- 
encoding) is a good idea, but then I get the following error:

Rendering test-utf8.txt as PDF...unhandled SIMPLE-ERROR:
   There is no applicable method for the generic function
     #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION PDF::PDF-WIDTHS (2)>
   when called with arguments
     (#<PDF:FONT-METRICS Helvetica {115DA461}>).

I would be grateful for any hints.

Thanks,

   Kilian