[Xerte] Embedded fonts and super/sub script

[Julian Tenney]

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:25 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Embedded fonts and super/sub script

 

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_subscri
pt_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: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[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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