[xep-support] Processing inline symbols

[W. Eliot Kimber]

Geurt Lagemaat wrote:

> Thank you, this approach works. There is something strange however. In:
> 
> <text>&#x2217; = asteriskmath symbol, &#x221A; radical symbol and &#x221D;
> proportional symbol</text>
> 
> only the asteriskmath and the proportional symbols are printed but NOT the
> radical symbol. 

This always means that a glyph for the character is not available in any 
of the fonts specified. On Win2K you can use the CharMap utility to see 
what glyphs a font actually provides.

Fonts are evaluated in the order listed in the font-family property, so 
the first font that has a glyph for a character determines what glyph 
shows up (you can demonstrate this by putting your dingbats or greek 
font first in the list and see what happens :-)).

I also find it useful to put a dingbat or wingdings-type font as the 
only global font to make sure that all flow objects are having their 
fonts set appropriately at a lower level when using a root-level font is 
not appropriate (for example, where different page sequences use very 
different fonts such that a single default font is not useful).

Cheers,

Eliot
-- 
W. Eliot Kimber, eliot at isogen.com
Consultant, ISOGEN International

1016 La Posada Dr., Suite 240
Austin, TX  78752 Phone: 512.656.4139

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