[Xerte] Embedded fonts and super/sub script

[Dave Burnett]

I'll try it out.
I had run across the GG solution in my search, but after reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger I wondered if Frutiger Next might support ss/sp natively.
But fonts and how they are constructed is a mystery to me, so I'm probably mis-undertanding the concepts.
And I guess if Flash doesn't support the ss/sp concept, then it's academic anyway.


Subject: RE: [Xerte] Embedded fonts and super/sub script
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:25:12 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk



















I don’t think those characters are in the font – I think
it’s the browser’s rendering that handles the <sub> /
<sup> using the normal characters.

 

There are some free fonts out there for sub / sup:

 

http://blog.ggshow.com/index.php/reference/2007/04/19/how_to_use_subscript_aamp_superscript_in

Embed those with frutiger in the resources.swf. Then you can (conveniently)
do

 

Here is a test<font face="GGSUPERS">here is
another</font>and here is <font face="GGSUBSCR">
more</font>. You might want to do some preparsing and replace <sub>
in you code with the gribbly <font face=”GGSUPERS”> etc.

 

Why the flash player cannot handle this natively is a real pain.

 

Make sure the ttf files have a lowercase .ttf – the fonts
are GGSUPERS.TTF when you download ‘em and Xerte is obviously looking for
.ttf in amongst the files for the resources.swf.

 

J

 

 

 





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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:05 PM

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Subject: [Xerte] Embedded fonts and super/sub script





 



With a hand from JT, I've managed to get embedded fonts (in this case Frutiger
Linotype) and css with custom tags working together. I'll post the details for
the archives once I get this last bit addressed.



Now, if I open Frontpage and use Frutiger as the font, I can
subscript/superscript, so I assume the Frutiger Linotype has the ss/sp fonts in
there.



I have embedded that font in resource.swf, and it appears as expected.



But I am not sure how to proceed as far as defining a character within Xerte
such that it uses the ss/sp.

Flash (and hence Xerte) does not support the <sup>, <sub> tags, so
how do we invoke them?



Cheers,



Dave 







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