Thomas, the doc you are looking for is the Fonts doc that comes with your system. It is a bit of a read with its 276 pages.

Now let's suppose that your Times STD has been read into your XPP system as pts 30. And that your Times PSMT has been read in as pts 330.

Here is one way of getting what you want (there are other ways that would work as well):

• in the fgs 30 for the Times STD you add pts 330 as the last entry
• recreate your FAST 30

and that is it.

You will now have a FAST 30 that contains all the characters of your Times STD in combination with all of the extra character (like you bullet) that exist only in the PSMT font.

If you only want to include only the one bullet you will have to do some extra work...

Thanks for your reply, including the entire second font would seem somewhat safe (better to have all characters possible than miss one by customizing); any idea if doing so would introduce a performance cost?

Ideally, I would only want XPP to use TimesPSMT for the characters that TimesSTD (or other, similar, Times families) is missing. 

Initially I'll test things out with the all-characters present scenario prior to doing a bit of reading and trimming things down a bit.

Kind regards
- Thomas

Thomas,

It seems to me that what you need here is a PI FAST that you would call as a secondary FAST in the FV spec.

The process to built such a FAST is a little bit too complicated to be explained here, but you can find all explainations in the "fonts" XPP doc (Bon courage !)

Best regards,

I. Durand