[xep-support] Using a symbol glyph as a bullet

[Nikolai Grigoriev]

Hi Kevin,

> <fo:inline font-family="ZapfDingbats">&#x006F;</fo:inline>
> 
> In theory, this should output the 'o' character of the Zapf Dingbats font
> which is a right-bottom-dropshadowed white box. 

It is Unicode U+2751.

> In the PDF output generated by XEP 3.1, however, the character 
> does not appear.

Yes, because ZapfDingbats does not contain any glyph for U+006F.

There is a sample document, examples/charsets/zapf-dingbats.fo, that
shows all available codepoints for ZapfDingbats. Please format 
it with XEP and look at the resulting PDF: things should become 
clearer.

For a discussion of codepoint assignment to dingbat glyphs, 
see http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/type/zapfdingbats.txt
(mentioned in XEP documentation, BTW) and the Unicode site:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf

> I am unable to use the TrueType version of the font, as according 
> to XEP it does not contain a Unicode translation table.

Yes, it may happen that a TrueType fonts lacks 'cmap' table for Unicode. 
This is often the case for old fonts (used in 16-bit Windows).

> Using the Windows Character Map tool, I have confirmed that the glyph 
> I want is Unicode 0x006F in the font.

The glyph is Unicode U+006F in a TrueType font with no Unicode 
CMap :-). You'd better not trust this info too much.

Best regards,
Nikolai Grigoriev
RenderX

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