<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="5.0" xml:id="symbol.font.family"> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>symbol.font.family</refentrytitle> <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">list</refmiscinfo> <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="list-type">open</refmiscinfo> <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="value">serif</refmiscinfo> <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="value">sans-serif</refmiscinfo> <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="value">monospace</refmiscinfo> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>symbol.font.family</refname> <refpurpose>The font families to be searched for symbols outside of the body font</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <src:fragment xml:id="symbol.font.family.frag"> <xsl:param name="symbol.font.family">Symbol,ZapfDingbats</xsl:param> </src:fragment> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info> <para>A typical body or title font does not contain all the character glyphs that DocBook supports. This parameter specifies additional fonts that should be searched for special characters not in the normal font. These symbol font names are automatically appended to the body or title font family name when fonts are specified in a <tag class="attribute">font-family</tag> property in the FO output. </para> <para>The symbol font names should be entered as a comma-separated list. The default value is <literal>Symbol,ZapfDingbats</literal>. </para> </refsection> </refentry>