diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
index 0401a515df..b8212b3f62 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ endif
 ifndef FOP
 FOP = $(missing) fop
 endif
+FOP += -c $(srcdir)/fop.xml
 
 XMLINCLUDE = --path .
 
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/fop.xml b/doc/src/sgml/fop.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1b0fb16782
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/fop.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<fop version="1.0">
+
+ <renderers>
+  <renderer mime="application/pdf">
+   <fonts>
+    <!-- automatically detect operating system installed fonts -->
+    <auto-detect/>
+   </fonts>
+  </renderer>>
+ </renderers>
+
+</fop>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
index 2f2517d8ce..0b53835782 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 <xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/docbook.xsl"/>
 <xsl:include href="stylesheet-common.xsl" />
 
+<xsl:param name="body.font.family">DejaVu Serif</xsl:param>
+
 <xsl:param name="fop1.extensions" select="1"></xsl:param>
 <xsl:param name="tablecolumns.extension" select="0"></xsl:param>
 <xsl:param name="toc.max.depth">3</xsl:param>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index e134877798..930abbb462 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ <title>Identifiers and Key Words</title>
 U&amp;"d\0061t\+000061"
 </programlisting>
     The following less trivial example writes the Russian
-    word <quote>slon</quote> (elephant) in Cyrillic letters:
+    word <quote>слон</quote>/<quote>slon</quote> (elephant) in Cyrillic letters:
 <programlisting>
 U&amp;"\0441\043B\043E\043D"
 </programlisting>
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ <title>String Constants with Unicode Escapes</title>
 U&amp;'d\0061t\+000061'
 </programlisting>
      The following less trivial example writes the Russian
-     word <quote>slon</quote> (elephant) in Cyrillic letters:
+     word <quote>слон</quote>/<quote>slon</quote> (elephant) in Cyrillic letters:
 <programlisting>
 U&amp;'\0441\043B\043E\043D'
 </programlisting>
-- 
2.26.2