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Webucator
Webucator

Reputation: 2683

Is it possible to change the font-family of the hyphenation character in xsl-fo?

I would like to use this character has my hyphenation character: ↵ (info on character at https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/21b5/index.htm).

In my XSL code, I have:

<xsl:attribute name="hyphenate">true</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="hyphenation-character">↵</xsl:attribute>

But the character doesn't show up. I think it's because the font family I am using is Roboto Mono (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Mono), which doesn't have that character.

Is it possible to change the font family of just the hyphenation character? Or is it possible to specify an external graphic to be used as the hyphenation character?

I am using XEP to do my transformations.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 589

Answers (1)

Tony Graham
Tony Graham

Reputation: 8068

font-family can take a comma-separated sequence of font family names (see https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#font-family). You can put the name of a font that does have the ↵ character after 'Roboto Mono' in the font-family property and the formatter should try the second font when it finds that 'Roboto Mono' does not have the glyph.

It may be necessary to also set font-selection-strategy="character-by-character" (see https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#font-selection-strategy) to force the font change for one character.

Upvotes: 3

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