[xep-support] Behavior of xml:base in font configuration file (3.77)

[W. Eliot Kimber]

Alexander Peshkov wrote:

> Hello Eliot,
> 
> Currently relative URLs in the xml:base property used in font
> configuration file are resolved with respect to location specified by
> METRICS property. By default METRICS is set to 'afm' subdirectory of
> XEP root. That's why you have such a result. I agree that this
> behavior is somewhat awkward and we will change it in the next major
> release. In the meantime you can work around this problem by setting
> METRICS to the path where fonts.xml is found. In general for font
> configuration in XEP 3.x it is recommended to set METRICS to the root
> fonts catalogue and then address all font file in fonts.xml by
> relative paths.

Thanks--I'll try that. Should work.

> Actually we have never advertised use of xml:base in fonts.xml :-)

It's in the manual....

Cheers,

E.

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W. Eliot Kimber
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