Re: [office] Support for Alternative Glyphs

[Ming Fei Jia <jiamingf@cn.ibm.com>]

robert_weir---07/08/2008 01:38:36 AM---Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote on 07/07/2008 12:53:42 PM:

From:	robert_weir@us.ibm.com
To:	office@lists.oasis-open.org
Date:	07/08/2008 01:38 AM
Subject:	Re: [office] Support for Alternative Glyphs

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Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote on 07/07/2008 12:53:42 PM:

> robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> > Are there any XML markups that currently support alternative glyphs?  How 
> > do they do it?
> 
> There is EGIX, but I don't have idea how widely is adopted:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/EGIX/
> 


>Interesting.  I wonder if this could be be treated as part of the style, not as part of the content? So, "I want 12-point Times Roman, bold, with alternative glyph 27", but the content.xml knows nothing about the alternative glyph.  That is a way we could do this >in a way which does not break compatibility with older processors.
I could not help saying, this seems a wonderful solution.   

-Rob
MingfeiJia