[xep-support] Re: em and en spaces getting changed to spaces in pdf

From: Eric J. Schwarzenbach <Eric.Schwarzenbach@wrycan.com>
Date: Thu Aug 14 2014 - 10:41:56 PDT

Thanks Kevin!

On 08/13/2014 02:20 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:
> I believe you are correct, but it is truly lacking in the specification.
> Many/most fonts do not have such "characters" in their font. Thus, they must
> be "computed" and the specification makes no rules about uch computation.
> I had to dig into the support archives way back to 2005 to find that one.
>
> Read the long thread here:
>
> http://services.renderx.com/lists/xep-support/3870.html
>
> If you truly want to implement them, you need to use fo:leader, as in:
>
> <fo:block font-size="30pt">Regular space, Em<fo:leader
> leader-length="1em"/>space, En<fo:leader
> leader-length="0.5em"/>space</fo:block>
>
> Kevin Brown
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xep-support [mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] On Behalf Of
> Kevin Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:49 AM
> To: 'RenderX Community Support List'
> Subject: [xep-support] Re: em and en spaces getting changed to spaces in pdf
>
> That requires more information about the font you are using and how you are
> determining "they are converted" in the PDF.
> Send along a small sample of the FO and the PDF showing this.
>
>
> Kevin Brown
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xep-support [mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] On Behalf Of Eric
> J. Schwarzenbach
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:30 AM
> To: RenderX Community Support List
> Subject: [xep-support] em and en spaces getting changed to spaces in pdf
>
> For some reason we are seeing em and en spaces (which we definitely see in
> our fo) get converted to regular spaces in the PDF. Does anyone have any
> idea why this would be? Is there some kind of configuration around this, in
> xep or something in the fo?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
>
>
>
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