[scribus] old style numbers - any fonts in the standard collection????

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Fri Jun 8 15:22:20 UTC 2012


On 06/08/2012 08:58 AM, Olivier BERTEN wrote:
> Not at all. According to the OpenType specs
> <http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_pt.htm#tnum>, the
> Tabular figures (tnum) feature "will generally be the default, but
> this cannot be safely assumed."
>
> More on numerical styles
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms745109.aspx#numerical_styles
>

But in some respects it seems that this is creating a monospaced (called 
tabular) effect with a proportional glyph.

 From the first reference:

"Replaces figure glyphs set on proportional widths with corresponding 
glyphs set on uniform (tabular) widths. Tabular widths will generally be 
the default, but this cannot be safely assumed. Of course this feature 
would not be present in monospaced designs."

Greg



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