[cl-typesetting-devel] umlauts

[Kilian Sprotte]

Am 14.10.2006 um 10:24 schrieb Marc Battyani:

> "Kilian Sprotte" <ml13 at onlinehome.de> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> [sorry for the reply delay]
>
> Have you found a solution for this since then?

Only one that you would not like to hear about....
So admittedly, I have not played around with this any longer and
don't need a solution for it right now....
But of course, I would be curious to know, if I have just
overseen something...

Cheers,

   Kilian