On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:44 PM, chagrins wrote:

With Adobe Garamond Pro, when I use

\defaultfontfeatures{Numbers={Proportional,OldStyle}}

...it also outputs "lowercase" symbols - for example, the dollar sign
matches the numbers.

However, in Hoefler Text, I can't get the symbols to match the numbers
- I always get the capital dollar sign.

That's because Hoefler Text doesn't have a lower case $ sign.


I can manually select the lowercase dollar sign in Hoefler Text using
Pages, through "Glyph Variants" in the typography panel.

Then I suspect that Pages must be faking it somehow. (I couldn't check this with Pages, but with InDesign, no lower case $ shows up in the Glyphs table.)


This seems like it could be a problem with the buggy version of
Hoefler Text in Mac OS X, but is there a way to manually select the
lowercase dollar sign glyph as a workaround?

You could also fake it.  Something like:

\newcommand{\sdol}{{\addfontfeature{Scale=.75}\$}}

or (if you've got a lot of \$, but are only using the one font)

\let\olddol\$
\renewcommand{\$}{{\addfontfeature{Scale=.75}\olddol}}

Note that this solution will also scale \$ in any other font, which may not be desirable.

Alan


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Alan Munn
am...@gmx.com






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