[XeTeX] OT: Ascender 2010 Font Pack w/ enhanced OpenType features

[Andrew Moschou]

Apparently, Word still uses fake small caps.


On 10 July 2010 03:09, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 9 Jul 2010, at 10:29, William Adams wrote:
>
> > Here:
> >
> > http://www.fontmarketplace.com/font/ascender-2010-pack.aspx
> >
> > Thought some people might want to grab this for testing purposes.
> >
> > Announcement text:
> >
> >> The Ascender 2010 Font Pack features 14 fonts with enhanced OpenType
> features to showcase the advanced typographic features that are new in
> Microsoft® Word 2010 and Microsoft Publisher 2010. Also included in the Font
> Pack is a set of templates for Word 2010 and Publisher 2010 that show off
> the fonts in action.
> >> All the fonts and new OpenType features were developed by the type
> experts at Ascender Corp and optimized for Microsoft Office 2010. Included
> are fonts from both the Microsoft and Ascender font collections, including
> new and enhanced versions of Comic Sans and Trebuchet.View 2010 Font Pack
> Overview (PDF file)
> >> The new OpenType font features are:
> >>      • Ligatures (standard, contextual, discretionary/historical)
> >>      • Number spacing (tabular, proportional)
> >>      • Number forms (lining, old-style)
> >>      • Stylistic Sets (up to 20 pre-programmed sets)
> >>      • Contextual Alternates
> >>      • Swashes (Publisher 2010 only)
> >>      • Stylistic Alternates (Publisher 2010 only)
> >
> >
> > Kinda sad that two features are only implemented in Publisher....
>
> I presume that's simply a limitation of the Word user interface - if it
> doesn't provide options to select those features, then they're inaccessible
> in that program. They ought to work in xetex, I hope.....
>
> JK
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