Am 15.10.2011 16:23, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller:
No, the established English term is "Old Style Figure" or "Text Figure". Hence
the usual abbreviation "OSF" which you have in font names containing these
figures.
See for instance...
OK, then we should use this term. I will now change the docs accordingly.
In the text in the UserGuide somebody wrote that these are figures of
characters used by the fonts. So I guess the font doesn't have a glyph to
display these characters and thus use a figure.
No, this is not correct. Can you point me to the respective section?
In sec. 3.7.3 we have this sentence
"If Use Old Style Figures is checked, the font uses old style (also known as medieval or text)
figures, i. e. figures with varying height that fit nicely with lower letters."
Note that (except of German, French, Spanish and Japanese users) our users have to read the English
manuals. I therefore tried to use an English as simple as possible in the docs. For me as non-native
speaker the text "figures with varying height" sounds that it is about figures. So as I
misunderstood it, others might too, so we need a better description here. Do you have a proposal?
What about this?:
"If Use Old Style Figures is checked, the font uses old style figures (also known as medieval/old
style numerals), i. e. the numerals (0 - 9) with varying height that fit nicely with lower letters."
I can alternatively add a footnote pointing to the Wikipedia entry so that the user see the result
as image.
thanks and regards
Uwe
