Great, thanks for looking into it! AFAIU, your concept is right. The spec refers to CSS on how to handly the font selection (see [1]).
But I also think that's the minimal algorithm. If you have two Symbol characters and a space between, it's probably slightly better-looking to use Symbol's space character, i.e. no font-family change for only white-space. But I'd stick to what's easier to implement, first. CSS also defines a font-matching concept which, AFAIU, kicks in when mere font-selection doesn't help anymore. But IMO, that's another building site which shouldn't be too difficult to add once we have the basic infrastructure for char-by-char font selection. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#propdef-font-family [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#algorithm Jeremias Maerki On 19.10.2007 13:50:55 Manuel Mall wrote: > Because the issue of font selection by character was raised again on > fop-user I have started to look at it as the appropriate font data > structures are now in place. > > I am just looking for a confirmation here of the selection algorithm. My > understanding is that for each character, independent of its context, > the font list is searched for the first font with a matching glyph. > This means in particular for characters like space and hyphen (as used > for hyphenation), they will always be taken from the first font > containing them even if their 'neighbouring' characters are from a > different font? > > Manuel
