Thank's Glenn, that pretty much seems what I need. I will follow your
instructions trying to understand/evaluate the different options and see how
far I get with the given font :)
Best,
Frank
Von meinem iPhone gesendet
Am 10.05.2013 um 19:44 schrieb Glenn Adams <gl...@skynav.com>:
> Support for Advanced Typographic Tables (GSUB, GPOS, etc) [1] was added in
> 1.1 to support complex scripts [2]. You can also use these same complex
> script features with non complex scripts, provided the font supports the
> desired features [3].
>
> At present, the default features enabled for all scripts are:
>
> GSUB: { 'ccmp', 'liga', 'locl' }
> GPOS: { 'kern', 'mark', 'mkmk' }
>
> It sounds like you want to may want to use the 'salt' (Stylistic
> Alternatives), but I'm not certain since I don't know what features are in
> the font you are trying to use. In any case, although I plumbed the CS code
> to permit the higher layers of FO processing to specify something like the
> CSS3 font-feature-settings property, I haven't yet taken any action to add
> this property as an fox (extension namespace property) in FOP.
>
> As a work around, if the Font happens to expose the glyph you want via a
> Unicode PUA entry in the CMAP, then you can access it via that PUA code
> point. There is no other way to specify a specific glyph in FOP. You could
> also use SVG and convert the glyph into an SVG outline, though that's
> probably over kill.
>
> Regards,
> Glenn
>
> [1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/ttochap1.htm
> [2] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/complexscripts.html
> [3] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/featuretags.htm
> [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-feature-settings-prop
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Frank Hirsch <frank.hir...@mac.com> wrote:
>> I am currently trying to use a specific glyph from a TTF font in a
>> substitution table.
>>
>> 1. I learned such glyphs in OTF or TTF fonts can be used in layout programs
>> such as InDesign by selecting them directly in the glyph selection
>> 2. Trying to understand and having checked the documentation, this seems to
>> have nothing to do with the font substitution described at
>> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.1/fonts.html#substitution
>> 3. Calling the glyph by HEX or Unicode is not possible since it's the same
>> address
>>
>> So far I was trying to understand the mechanism of subtables (GSUB Lookups)
>> at all, which led me to check the content of my font with fontforge.
>> There I found all the corresponding tables under "Element > Font Info >
>> Lookups"...
>>
>> Is it possible at all to use a glyph from a substitution table in Apache FOP
>> at all or am I doing something completely wrong?
>> I would love to have in FO the same ability as in my layout software using
>> "tabular digits"...
>>
>> Thank's for your help ;)
>>
>> - I am running on fop-1.0 and fop-1.1 on Mac OS X with Java 1.7.0u21
>> - The font has been defined as
>> <font embed-url="fonts/DuraSans2012-Bold.ttf">
>> <font-triplet name="DuraSans" style="normal" weight="bold"/>
>> </font>
>> - Very basic and simple selection of the font in fo...
>> <fo:block font-family="DuraSans">...</fo:block>
>>
>>
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