From: Marc Wilhelm Küster (kuester@saphor.net)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 00:47:48 PST
Hi!
I have an problem with the font-family property. In my test file I try to
set a mixture of Latin and Hebrew text with
font-family="Palatino,Arial Unicode Short"
Palatino does not contain Hebrew glyphs, Arial Unicode Short does. Both
fonts are setup in my fonts.xml and work in principle.
Using this font-family property, only the Latin part of the text is
actually displayed. Using only Arial Unicode Short, the complete text
including Hebrew is rendered.
It seems that the program uses only the Palatino font. However, the FO spec
is quite unambiguous that this should not happen this way (section 7.8.2):
"This property specifies a prioritized list of font family names and/or
generic family names. To deal with the problem that a single font may not
contain glyphs to display all the characters in a document, or that not all
fonts are available on all systems, this property allows authors to specify
a list of fonts, all of the same style and size, that are tried in sequence
to see if they contain a glyph for a certain character. This list is called
a font set."
This issue is acknowledged in XEP spec (notes 12 and 13), but I find it a
rather hard one to live with.
Will this issue be fixed in the near future? In the meantime, how can I get
around this problem without explicit font-family-selections whenever an
uncovered character is found in the text (they are not marked up as such)?
Curious and looking for enlightement,
Marc
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Marc Wilhelm Küster
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