[xep-support] Combining Type 1 fonts

[David Tolpin]

> 
> 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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