[scribus] OpenType features

[Gregory Pittman]

I enjoy the very important questions you bring to the list. I agree that 
we need to go far beyond ligatures and number style variants for 
OpenType fonts.

Greg


On 09/09/2017 01:49 PM, ZASKE Martin wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I had written to a typeface-department of SIL to inform them about the
> new features, not least of supporting certain ligatures and style sets
> of OpenType fonts from Scribus 1.5.3.
>
> They promised kindly to include references to Scribus in their future
> PDF documentations for their fonts like Andika, Charis SIL, Gentium etc.
>
> They have also now included Scribus in their list of supporting programs
> for their OpenType features, for style sets:
>
> https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/support/application-support/
>
>
> But in return I was asked this: "Do you know if there are also plans to
> support Character Variants?" and I do not know the answer.
>
> Those are encoded cv01-cv99 while Style Sets are encoded ss01-ss99 in
> OpenType.
>
> I believe Scribus could already support character variants, because the
> technology does not look much different from the style sets. We are
> maybe just missing a few lines of code - or maybe even just missing the
> boxes to tick in our new F4 window aka Text Properties on the Font
> Features tab.
>
> Anybody has the info what I could answer to the SIL font people about
> Character Variants? They are producing significant numbers of such
> variants for their fonts and access would make a difference to their
> users I suppose (I use SIL fonts a lot myself).
>
> I googled it too and found an abandoned question on a Scribus forum here:
>
> http://forums.scribus.net/index.php?topic=2419.0
>
>
> Is this maybe a taboo subject? Like adult stuff for typesetters?
>
> greetings, good weekend,
>
> Martin
>
>
> PS: And I thank those people who had recommended Fontmatrix a while ago
> on this list. I am finding new amazing things all the time.
>
> Beware, soon I will ask this list how I can access the un-mapped glyphs
> in certain fonts (look at the deep end of Comic Sans[sic] and be
> amazed). Those would make the coolest profile-"photos" on certain
> typography-fora, if I could only access them and set something in
> Scribus and then render small bitmaps...
>
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