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 -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
