On Wednesday 23 March 2005 12:24, Greg Aumann wrote:
> Arne GÃtje (éçè) wrote:
> > I am following the Arphic style used in the Big5 fonts. However,
> > I'm experimenting with OTF features, like providing multiple
> > varients for different regions. The next release (scheduled for
> > March 27.) will contain the varients for the "bone" character.
> > Currently I know only OpenOffice.org to support this function. I
> > only do this for testing first.
>
> I am very interested in your comment that openoffice supports font
> features. Which version? I assume you mean on linux. I couldn't find
> it in version 1.1.4. Is the option hidden unless a font with features
> is selected?

I use version 1.1.3 on Linux. When you turn on East-Asian support, you 
can select on a character base and a default vaule for the whole 
document, which presentation form should be displayed (simplefied 
chinese, traditional chinese, japanese, etc.). I suppose that this one 
works together with the OTF feature to have an entry in the GSUB table 
for different presentation forms. However, I'll have to test this.

> The only applications I have heard of that support font features are
> windows ones: worldpad from scripts.sil.org and Adobe Indesign. Also
> the Doulos SIL font from scripts.sil.org makes extensive use of font
> features. Unfortunately it this font is far in advance of the
> application support.

I haven't tried that one... but maybe I should take a look at it how the 
features work... :)

Cheers
Arne
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