Re: Specifying virtual fonts in XML for handling variant characters

James Tauber (jtauber@jtauber.com)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 02:05:43 +0800


-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@allette.com.au>

>Has anyone come up with a solution for specifying virtual ("synthetic")
>fonts in XML?
>
>I need more than just saying "Latin block uses font x, greek block uses
font
>y", I need to be able to say "This character should use font x, that
>character should use font y".

I actually need this for FOP[1]. FOP is taking in Unicode but outputting PDF
using Type 1 fonts with AdobeStandardEncoding.

James

[1] http://www.jtauber.com/fop/