man.charmap.subset.profile.xml #1

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<refentrytitle>man.charmap.subset.profile</refentrytitle>
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<refnamediv>
<refname>man.charmap.subset.profile</refname>
<refpurpose>Profile of character map subset</refpurpose>
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<src:fragment xml:id="man.charmap.subset.profile.frag">
<xsl:param name="man.charmap.subset.profile">
@*[local-name() = 'block'] = 'Miscellaneous Technical' or
(@*[local-name() = 'block'] = 'C1 Controls And Latin-1 Supplement (Latin-1 Supplement)' and
 (@*[local-name() = 'class'] = 'symbols' or
  @*[local-name() = 'class'] = 'letters')
) or
@*[local-name() = 'block'] = 'Latin Extended-A'
or
(@*[local-name() = 'block'] = 'General Punctuation' and
 (@*[local-name() = 'class'] = 'spaces' or
  @*[local-name() = 'class'] = 'dashes' or
  @*[local-name() = 'class'] = 'quotes' or
  @*[local-name() = 'class'] = 'bullets'
 )
) or
@*[local-name() = 'name'] = 'HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS' or
@*[local-name() = 'name'] = 'WORD JOINER' or
@*[local-name() = 'name'] = 'SERVICE MARK' or
@*[local-name() = 'name'] = 'TRADE MARK SIGN' or
@*[local-name() = 'name'] = 'ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE'
</xsl:param>
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<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>

<para>If the value of the
<parameter>man.charmap.use.subset</parameter> parameter is non-zero,
and your DocBook source is not written in English (that
  is, if the <tag class="attribute">lang</tag> or <tag
    class="attribute">xml:lang</tag> attribute on the root element
  in your DocBook source or on the first <tag>refentry</tag>
  element in your source has a value other than
  <literal>en</literal>), then the character-map subset specified
  by the <parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter>
  parameter is used instead of the full roff character map.</para>

<para>Otherwise, if the <tag class="attribute">lang</tag> or <tag
    class="attribute">xml:lang</tag> attribute on the root
  element in your DocBook
  source or on the first <tag>refentry</tag> element in your source
  has the value <literal>en</literal> or if it has no <tag
    class="attribute">lang</tag> or <tag
    class="attribute">xml:lang</tag> attribute, then the character-map
  subset specified by the
  <parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile.english</parameter>
  parameter is used instead of
  <parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter>.</para>

<para>The difference between the two subsets is that
  <parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter> provides
  mappings for characters in Western European languages that are
  not part of the Roman (English) alphabet (ASCII character set).</para>

<para>The value of <parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter>
is a string representing an XPath expression that matches attribute
names and values for <tag
  namespace="http://docbook.sf.net/xmlns/unichar/1.0">output-character</tag>
elements in the character map.</para>

<para>The attributes supported in the <link xlink:href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/snapshot/xsl/manpages/charmap.groff.xsl">standard roff character map included in the distribution</link> are:
<variablelist>
  <varlistentry>
    <term>character</term>
    <listitem>
      <simpara>a raw Unicode character or numeric Unicode
      character-entity value (either in decimal or hex); all
      characters have this attribute</simpara>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term>name</term>
    <listitem>
      <simpara>a standard full/long ISO/Unicode character name (e.g.,
      "OHM SIGN"); all characters have this attribute</simpara>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term>block</term>
    <listitem>
      <simpara>a standard Unicode "block" name (e.g., "General
      Punctuation"); all characters have this attribute. For the full
      list of Unicode block names supported in the standard roff
      character map, see <xref linkend="BlocksAndClasses"/>.</simpara>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term>class</term>
    <listitem>
      <simpara>a class of characters (e.g., "spaces"). Not all
      characters have this attribute; currently, it is used only with
      certain characters within the "C1 Controls And Latin-1
      Supplement" and "General Punctuation" blocks. For details, see
      <xref linkend="BlocksAndClasses"/>.</simpara>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term>entity</term>
    <listitem>
      <simpara>an ISO entity name (e.g., "ohm"); not all characters
      have this attribute, because not all characters have ISO entity
      names; for example, of the 800 or so characters in the standard
      roff character map included in the distribution, only around 300
      have ISO entity names.
      </simpara>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
    <term>string</term>
    <listitem>
      <simpara>a string representing an roff/groff escape-code (with
      "@esc@" used in place of the backslash), or a simple ASCII
      string; all characters in the roff character map have this
      attribute</simpara>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>The value of <parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter>
is evaluated as an XPath expression at run-time to select a portion of
the roff character map to use. You can tune the subset used by adding
or removing parts. For example, if you need to use a wide range of
mathematical operators in a document, and you want to have them
converted into roff markup properly, you might add the following:

<literallayout class="monospaced">  @*[local-name() = 'block'] ='MathematicalOperators' </literallayout>

That will cause a additional set of around 67 additional "math"
characters to be converted into roff markup. </para>

<note>
<para>Depending on which XSLT engine you use, either the EXSLT
<function>dyn:evaluate</function> extension function (for xsltproc or
Xalan) or <function>saxon:evaluate</function> extension function (for
Saxon) are used to dynamically evaluate the value of
<parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter> at run-time. If you
don't use xsltproc, Saxon, Xalan -- or some other XSLT engine that
supports <function>dyn:evaluate</function> -- you must either set the
value of the <parameter>man.charmap.use.subset</parameter> parameter
to zero and process your documents using the full character map
instead, or set the value of the
<parameter>man.charmap.enabled</parameter> parameter to zero instead
(so that character-map processing is disabled completely.</para>
</note>

<para>An alternative to using
<parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter> is to create your
own custom character map, and set the value of
<parameter>man.charmap.uri</parameter> to the URI/filename for
that. If you use a custom character map, you will probably want to
include in it just the characters you want to use, and so you will
most likely also want to set the value of
<parameter>man.charmap.use.subset</parameter> to zero.</para>
<para>You can create a
custom character map by making a copy of the <link xlink:href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/snapshot/xsl/manpages/charmap.groff.xsl">standard roff character map</link> provided in the distribution, and
then adding to, changing, and/or deleting from that.</para>

<caution>
<para>If you author your DocBook XML source in UTF-8 or UTF-16
encoding and aren't sure what OSes or environments your man-page
output might end up being viewed on, and not sure what version of
nroff/groff those environments might have, you should be careful about
what Unicode symbols and special characters you use in your source and
what parts you add to the value of
<parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter>.</para>
<para>Many of the escape codes used are specific to groff and using
them may not provide the expected output on an OS or environment that
uses nroff instead of groff.</para>
<para>On the other hand, if you intend for your man-page output to be
viewed only on modern systems (for example, GNU/Linux systems, FreeBSD
systems, or Cygwin environments) that have a good, up-to-date groff,
then you can safely include a wide range of Unicode symbols and
special characters in your UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoded DocBook XML source
and add any of the supported Unicode block names to the value of
<parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter>.</para>
</caution>


<para>For other details, see the documentation for the
<parameter>man.charmap.use.subset</parameter> parameter.</para>

<refsection xml:id="BlocksAndClasses"><info><title>Supported Unicode block names and "class" values</title></info>
  

  <para>Below is the full list of Unicode block names and "class"
  values supported in the standard roff stylesheet provided in the
  distribution, along with a description of which codepoints from the
  Unicode range corresponding to that block name or block/class
  combination are supported.</para>

  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=C1%20Controls%20and%20Latin-1%20Supplement%20(Latin-1%20Supplement)">C1 Controls And Latin-1 Supplement (Latin-1 Supplement)</link> (x00a0 to x00ff)
      <itemizedlist><info><title>class values</title></info>
        
        <listitem>
          <para>symbols</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>letters</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist></para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Latin%20Extended-A">Latin Extended-A</link> (x0100 to x017f, partial)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Spacing%20Modifier%20Letters">Spacing Modifier Letters</link> (x02b0 to x02ee, partial)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Greek%20and%20Coptic">Greek and Coptic</link> (x0370 to x03ff, partial)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=General%20Punctuation">General Punctuation</link> (x2000 to x206f, partial)
      <itemizedlist><info><title>class values</title></info>
        
        <listitem>
          <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;start=8192&amp;end=8203">spaces</link></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;start=8208&amp;end=8213">dashes</link></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>quotes</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>daggers</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>bullets</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>leaders</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>primes</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Superscripts%20and%20Subscripts">Superscripts and Subscripts</link> (x2070 to x209f)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Currency%20Symbols">Currency Symbols</link> (x20a0 to x20b1)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Letterlike%20Symbols">Letterlike Symbols</link> (x2100 to x214b)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Number%20Forms">Number Forms</link> (x2150 to x218f)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Arrows">Arrows</link> (x2190 to x21ff, partial)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Mathematical%20Operators">Mathematical Operators</link> (x2200 to x22ff, partial)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Control%20Pictures">Control Pictures</link> (x2400 to x243f)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Enclosed%20Alphanumerics">Enclosed Alphanumerics</link> (x2460 to x24ff)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Geometric%20Shapes">Geometric Shapes</link> (x25a0 to x25f7, partial)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Miscellaneous%20Symbols">Miscellaneous Symbols</link> (x2600 to x26ff, partial)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Dingbats">Dingbats</link> (x2700 to x27be, partial)</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><link xlink:href="http://zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php?searchType=103&amp;id=Alphabetic%20Presentation%20Forms">Alphabetic Presentation Forms</link> (xfb00 to xfb04 only)</para>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
</refsection>
</refsection>
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