RE: [xep-support] Font family switching

From: Jeff Beal (jeff.beal@ansys.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 08:19:36 PDT

  • Next message: Geurt Lagemaat: "RE: [xep-support] Font family switching"

    Set the font-selection-strategy attribute on the fo:root element to
    character-by-character.

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Geurt Lagemaat [mailto:Lagemaat@oriana-automatisering.com]
    > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:56 AM
    > To: xep-support@renderx.com
    > Subject: [xep-support] Font family switching
    >
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I have a question about font family's.
    >
    > I'm running XEP 3.31 with:
    >
    > <fo:block font-family="Bembo, Arial"> Like a &#x2264; sign or the
    > &#x2265; sign.</fo:block>
    > <fo:block font-family=" Bembo, 'Zapf Dingbats', Symbol"> Like a bull:
    > &#x25cf; and more text and the radical sign: &#x221A; text
    > after.</fo:block>
    >
    > Looking into the resulting PDF I noticed that the text before &#x2264;
    > is formatted with the Bembo font and the &#x2264; symbol with
    > Arial. The
    > problem is that the text after &#x2264; is also formatted
    > with Arial and
    > not Bembo. My idea was that when XEP encounters a character
    > that is not
    > found in the first font listed in font-family it will use the second
    > font and so on.
    >
    > In my opinion it should return to the first font (Bembo in my case)
    > after the &#x2264; symbol as it does in the second block (it switches
    > from Bembo, to Zapf Dingbats for the &#x25cf; back to Bembo
    > and then to
    > Symbol for the &#x221A; sign back to bembo etc.). Any idea's?
    >
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    >
    > Geurt Lagemaat
    > Oriana Automatisering
    >
    >
    >
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