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I have checked many questions here but none has my answer. I appreciate if you direct me to the right path.
I like to make a new symbol (not a font or related to any alphabet) like creating a new language alphabets that could be recognized or translated in a browser in form of html or javascript code.
In other words, assigning single custom character for multiple characters.(e.x 1 ch translates into 5 ch)
I assume I need to make the font first and then assign that character. What programs do you suggest or what is the best approach?
Edit: A better example: Make a new character like ¢ (cent) that has entity name --> & c e n t; and entity number --> & # 1 6 2;
Edit 2: Thank you all for your replies. I'm trying to check your links and suggestions.As I understand, there might be an issue of browser compatibility. So how about make new symbols in a text file saved on server and when the user views the file, javascript converts those symbols into a word or other standard characters?
Edit3: Sorry for any confusion guys, you are all awesome. This example might clear things.
make a new symbol that assigns to "AB". So one character that translates into two characters?
Edit4: This is based on Jared answer. This does work for Z and P. Now how should I add my custom font to this file (replace Z and P with my own)? Assuming Z and P are my custom made symbols
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
[
<!ENTITY Z "AB">
<!ENTITY P "DE">
...
]>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Extending XHTML - Example 1</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>My symbols are &Z; and &P;</p>
</body>
</html>
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This may be an option for you, I'm not quite sure. Pretty much, if you use XHTML and/or XLST, you could possibly achieve what you're looking for in custom-defined characters. For example:
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
[
<!ENTITY mailto "mailto:">
<!ENTITY username "gabriel">
<!ENTITY arobase "@">
<!ENTITY hostname "gabsoftware">
<!ENTITY tld ".com">
<!ENTITY email "&username;&arobase;&hostname;&tld;">
]>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Extending XHTML - Example 1</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>My email is &email;</p>
</body>
</html>
http://jfcoder.com/test/entities.xhtml
You'll see the SGML ENTITY element, which by the way I believe HTML5 is no longer going to belong to anymore. Whether or not you can embed an image in those entities or through an XLST transformation to achieve your goal I haven't figured out yet.
For many more examples and options, see this page:
Extending XHTML with XML, XSLT, entities, CDATA sections and JavaScript
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You have to use the SGML Entity declaration to create a new character entity. This should work in all languages that inherit from SGML including HTML and XML, but I would be sure to test this in all supported user agents just to be sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_entity
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