- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:38:11 -0400
- To: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 12:24 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: > http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/dstype/esta/ligatures/ shows > a variant of a font, this file containing ligatures. > > How might this be used in xsl-fo? In this particular case the ligatures are mapped to regular characters - for example, "a" is an fj ligature, b is ffj, c is fr, and so on. So you work out the text you want. > Not a new 'family', just a variant? In this case you'll end up with an fo:inline around each ligature probably, setting the font explicitly. You'd probably have to tell the fo renderer that it was a different font family. The newer "approved" way for this to wor is via a single OpenType font with an opentype feature such as "CrazyLigatures" enabled, but FO 1 has no way to turn on such a feature except via implementation extensions. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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