I enjoy the very important questions you bring to the list. I agree that we need to go far beyond ligatures and number style variants for OpenType fonts.
Greg On 09/09/2017 01:49 PM, ZASKE Martin wrote: > 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... > > > >
