Hi Stephen,
On Mittwoch, 27. August 2008, Stephen Taylor wrote:
> Some fonts offer both title and text figures (sometimes called "lining"
> and "non-lining"), analogous to upper and lower cases for alphabetics.
> Does docbook offer any semantics for distinguishing them?
As far as I know, not directly. For me, it seems like this is more a
feature of your processing chain or target format than a task for
DocBook. :)
However, if you really want to distinguish between normal figures and text
(or old-style) figures you could use phrase, for example:
<phrase role="oldstyle">12345</phrase>
Your XSLT customization layer must match for phrase with a role attribute
and select for each number the alternative glyph. You need to know the
Unicode codepoint of your old-style figures, so you can map the normal
figures to the new ones. I'm not 100% sure if these codepoints are
available in Unicode. Of course, the font has to support these
figures. :)
Well, at least that's the theory, maybe there are other alternatives.
Good luck,
Tom
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Thomas Schraitle
