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Re: Oldstyle Figures (OSF) from OpenType Font
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: Oldstyle Figures (OSF) from OpenType Font |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:55:09 +0200 (CEST) |
> In the issue report you say, LilyPond doesn't currenty (i.e. Nov
> 2010) support OpenType features.
Yes.
> LilyPond does support ligatures and kerning (at least on Linux, it
> seems this doesn't work on Windows). Are these no OpenType features?
Today, kerning is usually realized with a feature, yes. And having
ligatures certainly is.
> Or have there been improvements since your report?
Features which are activated by default are seen by lilypond also.
For example, handling of Arabic needs a lot of OpenType support, and
this is provided by Pango automatically.
However, we need a mechanism to activate optional features. And to
answer your question from the other mail: Yes, this is a non-trivial
task to implement.
Werner