Re: [Foxet] fonts again

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Author: Hans Hagen
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To: Bruce D'Arcus
CC: foxet list
Subject: Re: [Foxet] fonts again
Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> h h extern wrote:
>
>> [btw, in my opinion fo by design is platform dependent with regards to
>> fonts]
>
>
> What do you mean? With what consequences?
>
> If I ever get anywhere with this, my intention is to write XSLTs that
> make use of FOs fallback mechanisms. So font-family="'Warnock Pro',
> serif" and so forth. My thought is that way I get rich typography using
> foxet, but it will still compile fine with other FO processors.


the problem is that there is no way to determine what fonts are available on a
system, so when you use fallbacks, at least you need to tell foxet what platform
it runs on; btw, rich typography sounds funny in combination with fo, although
... in foxet you can have hanging punctuation, hz, etc -)



Hans


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