[cl-typesetting-devel] umlauts

[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?

Marc