[SOLR-10883] Ref guide: some replacement substitutions, e.g. => to right arrow, are rendered invisibly in the PDF

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.7, 7.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Steven Rowe
• Reporter: Steven Rowe
• Created: 13/Jun/17 13:34
• Updated: 08/Jun/19 15:21
• Resolved: 21/Jun/17 22:32

Description

=>, <=, and <- are rendered as invisible in the PDF. These “replacement substitutions” aka “textual symbol replacements” ( http://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-writers-guide/#replacements ) render as invisible characters in the PDF, though they are visible in the HTML format, when substitution is in effect.

This is only a problem outside of code blocks (e.g. --> close comment syntax in XML is never improperly substituted).

In the screenshot below, a table from the CharFilterFactories|solr.MappingCharFilterFactory section is shown in the HTML format on the left, and in PDF format to the right; in the PDF format the => is invisible.