Re: [xep-support] Combining Type 1 fonts

From: Werner Donné (werner.donne@re.be)
Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 05:43:09 PST

  • Next message: David Tolpin: "Re: [xep-support] Combining Type 1 fonts"

    Thank you David! I remember having read about this somewhere in the XEP manuals
    of version 2, but I can't seem to find it anymore. I've only now discovered that
    it is possible to enumerate fonts in the font-family property. It's simply CSS2...

    Werner.

    David Tolpin wrote:
    >>Hi,
    >>
    >>Unicode characters can be mapped to Type 1 fonts through glyph lists. It seems to me
    >>that this is only one part of the problem. The Adobe Glyph List, for example, covers
    >>a large range of characters. The available Type 1 fonts typically don't cover that
    >>complete list. Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs are often in different fonts. It would
    >>therefore be useful to be able to combine several fonts in the Unicode-to-glyph mapping.
    >>
    >>A simple solution is perhaps to allow alias names to be reused. When an alias name is
    >>addressed, all fonts behind it could then be merged. The definition order in the
    >>fonts.xml file would be meaningful for resolving overlaps between the fonts.
    >
    >
    > Werner,
    >
    > multiple font families are working just find for this purpose. Just enumerate
    > a set of fonts which cover all of glyphs you need, XEP will switch between them
    > when necessary.
    >
    > David
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