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Asked: 2026-05-28T19:59:35+00:00

I am currently building a Website that uses a blackletter font. I try to

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I am currently building a Website that uses a blackletter font. I try to make it as authentic as possible, but I want to keep the code clean. So I got a few questions

  • Is it possible, to replace every semikolon (or any other letter, e.g. to autmoatically fill in the medieval sz-letter) with a dot (via css)?
  • Is it bad program style to use <br /> to correct the justification? If yes, how would you do it?
  • Does anyone know an opentype blackletter-font, that is using CSS3’s hist-feature?
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  1. Editorial Team

    Is it possible, to replace every semikolon (or any other letter, e.g. to autmoatically fill in the medieval sz-letter) with a dot (via css)?

    the answer to that is no. You’ll need JavaScript or server-side programming to do it.

    Alternatively, you could of course edit the font you’re using and do the substitutions there – but that’s really hard. The font’s license must allow it; you need to have the right tools, and you need to beprepared to deal with the possible kerning issues that simply replacing one character with another will bring.

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