On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:13 pm, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > I can only comment on some parts as I still don't have every aspect > of this topic present. All in all this looks good and this will be a > cool addition to FOP's feature set. :-) > > Concerning super/subscript, there are values in the PFM file of Type > 1 fonts (Extended Text Metrics in Adobe Technical Note #5178): > > etmSuperScript > etmSubScript > etmSuperScriptSize > etmSubScriptSize
Thanks for pointing these out. I think I leave this to the FOray font project to parse. However, to some extend it supports the point I made on the wiki page that the sub/superscript offsets are somehow coupled to the font size of the actual sub/superscript. To find the most visually appropriate position (especially for subscripts) appears to me as being a non trivial issue as it depends IMO not only on the font size of the subscript (relative to the font size of the main element) but also on the content of the subscript. For example, one would most likely choose a different position for a digit than a lowercase character. Do the typesetting experts on this list have any pointers on this topic? > > But they are currently not parsed. > > On 03.10.2005 02:58:51 Manuel Mall wrote: > > I have started a wiki page describing the issues I found in dealing > > with inline alignments and their proposed resolution: > > http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/LineLayout/AlignmentHandling > > > > The page is written in a style as if FOP already does those things. > > Of course it doesn't (my copy sort of does in parts). Comments, > > criticism, different points of view are most welcome as some of the > > suggested solutions may be contentious. > > > > Manuel > > Jeremias Maerki Manuel
