Yeah I'm afraid I'm not 100% on XSL-FO. 

But the technique would remain the same - you'd have a template which
checks each text() node character by character using substring(), and
if it finds a "pi" character it calls another template to output the
"pi" character wrapped in whatever font callout XSL-FO uses.

If you have access to msxml:script or php: namespace in your processor
it would be easier to find those substrings than iterating each
character in the text node.

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On 8 Nov 2006 11:51:20 -0800, "PB" <pboparai@c...> wrote:

>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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