Dear Gert,
The "splitting" of the text happens in the (La)TeX -> DVI step.
Afterwards, one would need (by some heuristics, I would guess) to
assemble the different boxes again.
But I remember that André had been working on supporting some primitive
form of typesetting without (La)TeX. That would probably the best for
your use case...
Best regards,
Jörg
On 13.07.15, Gert-Ludwig Ingold wrote:
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> Dear André, dear Jörg,
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> in a figure prepared with PyX, a professional designer had to replace the
> labels because the journal is using a non-free font which I do not own.
> Since PyX relies on (La)TeX for typesetting, each character is placed
> individually and (La)TeX ensures the proper kerning. Of course, for a
> different font the kerning will be different so that simply switching the
> font is not an option. Instead, the designer had to retype the text which
> not only costs time but also introduces a potential source of errors. In
> this special case, it would be advantageous if it were possible to set
> longer text in one single box so that the designer could just switch the
> font. This may well be impossible to do with PyX, but I wonder whether
> there exists a trick which could help in this situation. Or may be I just
> oversee something obvious? Any help is appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Gert
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