The user may apply this feature to get even spacing for lining figures used as dates in an all-cap headline.įunction: Replaces lining or oldstyle figures with inferior figures (smaller glyphs which sit lower than the standard baseline, primarily for chemical or mathematical notation). Of course this feature would not be present in monospaced designs. Tabular widths will generally be the default, but this cannot be safely assumed. The user applies this feature to turn 2.o into 2.o (abbreviation for secundo).įunction: Replaces figure glyphs set on uniform (tabular) widths with corresponding glyphs set on glyph-specific (proportional) widths. One exception to the follows-a-figure rule is the numero character (U+2116), which is actually a ligature substitution, but is best accessed through this feature. Various characters designed to be used with figures may also have oldstyle versions.įunction: Replaces default alphabetic glyphs with the corresponding ordinal forms for use after figures. The user invokes this feature to get oldstyle figures, which fit better into the flow of normal upper- and lowercase text. In the string 11/17 selected by the user, the application turns the 11 into numerators, and the slash into a fraction slash when the user applies the fraction feature.įunction: This feature changes selected figures from the default lining style to oldstyle form.
The glyph for ffl replaces the sequence of glyphs f f l.įunction: Replaces selected figures which precede a slash with numerator figures, and replaces the typographic slash with the fraction slash. This feature covers the ligatures which the designer/manufacturer judges should be used in normal conditions. The user enters 3/4 in a recipe and gets the threequarters fraction.įunction: Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph which is preferred for typographic purposes. In the string 11/17 selected by the user, the application turns the 17 into denominators when the user applies the fraction feature.įunction: Replaces figures separated by a slash with 'common' (diagonal) fractions. Function: Replaces selected figures which follow a slash with denominator figures.