[Xerte] Embedded fonts and super/sub script

[Dave Burnett]

Has anyone else used the GG sb/sp fonts?

I am using them in conjunction with frutiger, and while the superscript looks fine, appearing above the line text, the subscript seems to appear on the same base level as the line text, just a smaller size.
I sort of expected it to drop below base.

Dave

 


Subject: RE: [Xerte] Embedded fonts and super/sub script
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:52:37 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk



















Well, when you work for a University, not being able to do
subscripts / superscripts is a big problem. People just simply don’t believe
you when you try and tell them, and they just ask again, talking more slowly in
case you’ve misunderstood…

 

 

 





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

Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:49 PM

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





 



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

 

 

 





From:
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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

To: Xerte list

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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