[css-text][css-fonts] preventing font fallback from ruining my monospace text's alignment

• From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
• Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:35:13 +1100
• To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <5445F091.7080606@mcc.id.au>

I have a document that includes some code snippets in <pre> elements. 
Here is one:

   <pre>
   ...
       &lt;ex:arc from="n2" to="n3" label="Λ + c"/&gt;
   ...
   </pre>

It turns out that the font I am using for my code snippets doesn't have 
a glyph for the "Λ" character, and that the fallback font it ends up 
using has an advance that is a bit bigger than that of the surrounding 
characters.  This causes all the following characters to look 
misaligned, when looking at the lines above and below it.

Is there a way to prevent that from happening?  I feel like I want the 
ability to compress the "Λ" so that its advance is 1ch or perhaps to let 
it render at its slightly-bigger-than-I-want size but then place the 
following character where I expect it.

   pre { font-family: My Monospace Font; text-advance: 1ch compress; }

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