- From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:43:14 +0100
- To: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
On 12 June 2011 16:38, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote: > 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. Which seems wrong somehow Liam? It is the same font-family. Just an odd variant. Perhaps font-forge and add them there, somehow. > > 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. I must admit I can't think of a reasonable syntax to use these, or any other 'same font' inclusions. Seems to be half way between the renderer and the stylesheet author territory. Anyone any suggestions? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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