Hi Neil,

Thank you for your response.  Unfortunately, we are creating PDFs and
are using XSL-FO.  I know how to change font's using XSL-FO, but not
sure how to change the font of just a particular character.



Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:
> On 8 Nov 2006 10:24:15 -0800, "PB" <pboparai@c...> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I was wondering how to change the font for a specific character.  I.e.
> >when we use the capital letter for Pi, we would like it to be in
> >Courier New, but the rest of the document to be in Arial.  Is there a
> >way to globally set this in the XSL so that everywhere the Pi symbol
> >will be using the Courier New font?
>
>
> XSL (and XML generally) has no concept of fonts.
>
> Can I assume you're trying to output HTML from your stylesheet ?
>
> In that case, CSS is the formatting technique you want, but there's
> also a default setting for the <pre /> HTML element in browsers, which
> uses monospaced fonts (usually Courier or System)
>
> So your problem is just to find all "pi" symbols in your document, and
> wrap them in your HTML output as <pre>"pi"</pre>
>
>
> Cheers - Neil
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