On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:00:00AM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: > On 2010-07-12 18:33:54 +0930, Alexey Kryukov <anagn...@yandex.ru> > said: > > >On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:45:49 +0930 > >Will Robertson wrote: > > > >>- Historical style (hist) > > > >You can try my Theano Old Style font > >(http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/theano.html), which has some > >historical forms implemented both for Greek and Latin. > > Thanks, I'll take a look. > > > But please note > >that this feature is essentially deprecated: it is better for a font > >designer to use stylistic sets instead. > > Why? If they are "historical forms" isn't it better to give them a > meaningful OpenType feature name? > > >>4. I'm aware that I'm not fully covering the OpenType feature list > >>in fontspec. Has anyone noticed obvious areas that should be > >>included? > > > >Am I right fontspec still doesn't support stylistic sets > >(ss00--ss20), except via RawFeature? > > This has always been available under the "Variant=0/1/2/3/..." > feature but this name wasn't very obvious. In more recent versions > of fontspec you can use "StylisticSet=0/1/2...".
I think "Variant" is a more appropriate name for stylistic alternates "salt" not stylistic sets. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
