Hi list, I had written to a typeface-department of SIL to inform them about the new features, not least of supporting certain ligatures and style sets of OpenType fonts from Scribus 1.5.3.
They promised kindly to include references to Scribus in their future PDF documentations for their fonts like Andika, Charis SIL, Gentium etc. They have also now included Scribus in their list of supporting programs for their OpenType features, for style sets: https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/support/application-support/ But in return I was asked this: "Do you know if there are also plans to support Character Variants?" and I do not know the answer. Those are encoded cv01-cv99 while Style Sets are encoded ss01-ss99 in OpenType. I believe Scribus could already support character variants, because the technology does not look much different from the style sets. We are maybe just missing a few lines of code - or maybe even just missing the boxes to tick in our new F4 window aka Text Properties on the Font Features tab. Anybody has the info what I could answer to the SIL font people about Character Variants? They are producing significant numbers of such variants for their fonts and access would make a difference to their users I suppose (I use SIL fonts a lot myself). I googled it too and found an abandoned question on a Scribus forum here: http://forums.scribus.net/index.php?topic=2419.0 Is this maybe a taboo subject? Like adult stuff for typesetters? greetings, good weekend, Martin PS: And I thank those people who had recommended Fontmatrix a while ago on this list. I am finding new amazing things all the time. Beware, soon I will ask this list how I can access the un-mapped glyphs in certain fonts (look at the deep end of Comic Sans[sic] and be amazed). Those would make the coolest profile-"photos" on certain typography-fora, if I could only access them and set something in Scribus and then render small bitmaps... -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
