[xep-support] Using Computer Modern Type 1 fonts

[Nikolai Grigoriev]

Hi Paul,

> Somewhat strangely, though, spaces appear as a slightly
> angled hyphen!  What is the cause of this?

It is yet another peculiarity of Computer Modern: they use 
a very peculiar built-in encoding that lacks a space 
character (sic!). XEP can only use characters from the
built-in encoding - all other are replaced by a space. 
When the space itself is missing, XEP recovers by putting 
a character that is at codepoint 32 in the font. In your case,
it's a slanted tilde. I admit that the solution is not very
graceful. In future versions, we'll re-examine the respective 
part more closely. Thank you for bringing the case into light.

As a workaround, specify an extra font family that contains 
a glyph for a space. Any embedded font will do; for instance:

<fo:inline font-family="Computer Modern, Times"> 1 2 3 </fo:inline>

will bring the spaces back. (However, their width will be 
taken from Times).

Regards,
Nikolai


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