[xep-support] Can specific code points be re-directed to a specific font family?

[DESEYNE Jacques]

Thank you, Alexander. This works well. 

Of course, I meant 2264 (lesson learned: never prepare a message in a hurry).

BRs,

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xep-support at renderx.com 
>[mailto:owner-xep-support at renderx.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Peshkov
>Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:34 AM
>To: DESEYNE Jacques
>Subject: Re: [xep-support] Can specific code points be 
>re-directed to a specific font family?
>
>Hello Jacques,
>
>I suppose you mean ≤ (less then or equal) since ≆ is
>quite a different mathematical symbol that has no respective glyph in
>Symbol font.
>You can specify comma-separated list of font names inside font-family
>attribute. In such a case font selection will be governed by
>"font-selection-strategy" property. You can force formatter to
>re-evaluate font selection for every character by setting
>font-selection-strategy="character-by-character". Your example will
>looks like: 
>  <fo:inline font-family="Courier, Symbol"
>             font-size="10pt"
>             
>font-selection-strategy="character-by-character">a &#x2264; 
>b</fo:inline>
>
>Best regards,
>Alexander Peshkov                             
>mailto:peshkov at renderx.com
>RenderX
>             
>DJ> I may be missing something, but if I want to render a 
>portion of text such as:
> 
>DJ> <code>a &#x2246; b</code>
> 
>DJ> then I am not helped by producing things like:
> 
>DJ> <fo:inline font-family="Courier" font-size="10pt">a 
>&#x2246; b</fo:inline>
> 
>DJ> as Unicode character 0x2246 (less than or equal to) has to 
>be rendered using the Symbol font (I presume, as only this AFM has a
>DJ> glyph 'lessequal'). 
> 
>DJ> Do I have to take additional measures such as:
> 
>DJ> <fo:inline font-family="Courier" font-size="10pt">a 
><fo:inline font-family="Symbol">&#x2246;</fo:inline> b</fo:inline>
> 
>DJ> (which means scanning your character data for specific 
>code points)?
> 
>DJ> Or is there a way to impose Symbol (or ZapfDingbats etc.) 
>for _specific_ code points, whatever the current font family happens to
>DJ> be? The etc/fonts.xml file seems to offer no way to do this.
> 
>DJ> Best regards,
> 
>DJ> --
>DJ> Jacques Deseyne
>DJ> User Documentation Dept.
>DJ> S.W.I.F.T. - Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial 
>Telecommunication
>DJ> Avenue Adèle, 1
>DJ> B-1310 La Hulpe
>DJ> Belgium
>DJ> +32 2 655 3111
>DJ> http://www.swift.com
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