Re: [docbook] Text and title figures

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Thomas Schraitle wrote:

> 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. :)

AFAIK there are no special codepoints for old-style numbers in Unicode.
You have to either use font that uses old-style numbers glyphs for
normal numbers or OpenType font which has old-style number feature -- in
such fonts two type of glyphs for numbers are present. The problem is
that XSL-FO currently can't access such OpenType features so it would be
very difficult to persuade FO processor to switch to this style of numbers.

			Jirka

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