[xep-support] Font family switching

Jeff Beal jeff.beal at ansys.com
Tue Jun 3 08:19:36 PDT 2003


Set the font-selection-strategy attribute on the fo:root element to
character-by-character.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geurt Lagemaat [mailto:Lagemaat at oriana-automatisering.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:56 AM
> To: xep-support at renderx.com
> Subject: [xep-support] Font family switching
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about font family's. 
> 
> I'm running XEP 3.31 with:
> 
> <fo:block font-family="Bembo, Arial"> Like a &#x2264; sign or the
> &#x2265; sign.</fo:block>
> <fo:block font-family=" Bembo, 'Zapf Dingbats', Symbol"> Like a bull:
> &#x25cf; and more text and the radical sign: &#x221A; text
> after.</fo:block>
> 
> Looking into the resulting PDF I noticed that the text before &#x2264;
> is formatted with the Bembo font and the &#x2264; symbol with 
> Arial. The
> problem is that the text after &#x2264; is also formatted 
> with Arial and
> not Bembo. My idea was that when XEP encounters a character 
> that is not
> found in the first font listed in font-family it will use the second
> font and so on. 
> 
> In my opinion it should return to the first font (Bembo in my case)
> after the &#x2264; symbol as it does in the second block (it switches
> from Bembo, to Zapf Dingbats for the &#x25cf; back to Bembo 
> and then to
> Symbol for the &#x221A; sign back to bembo etc.). Any idea's?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Geurt Lagemaat
> Oriana Automatisering
> 
> 
> 
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