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RE: [docbook-apps] LE madness
- From: Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>
- To: 'Bob Stayton' <bobs at sco dot com>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:55:32 -0400
- Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] LE madness
Adding font-selection-strategy="character-by-character" would be a good
addition to the default root properties.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs at sco dot com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 12:23 PM
> To: Jeff Beal
> Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] LE madness
>
>
> > 3.1, if I remember correctly.) If you do this, you'll
> probably also want to
> > set the font-selection-strategy to "character-by-character"
> on your fo:root
> > element. Otherwise, XEP will switch to the Symbol font for
> that character
> > and all following characters (until it comes to a character
> not in the
> > Symbol font.)
>
> If this is how it should work, then the DocBook stylesheets
> should output these properties, no? Then it will work
> with XEP, and FOP will have something to work toward.
>
> > AFAIK, FOP does not support multiple font families in this
> manner. I think
> > it just uses the first font it can find for all characters
> in the document.
>
> FOP should handle an explicit inline font change, though.
> As a workaround, a stylesheet customization could output
>
> <fo:inline font-family="Symbol">≤</fo:inline>
>
> Maybe customize the <symbol> fo template to
> handle <symbol role="symbolfont">≤</symbol> in your
> document to switch fonts (use role because
> not all <symbol>s should get the font switch).
> It's a pretty ugly solution, but one could at
> least get the characters they need.
>
>
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