[Issue] Help on OpenType in OpenOffice

[Felix_Kay]

Hello community,

my question is if and to what extend is OpenType supported in AOO. If you are interested in typesetting or use of fancy fonts and font styles this might be a welcoming feature. I, for example, would like to use Garamond and the various things like alternate characters or varied number styles (medieval/minuscle numbers vs. "normal") etc.

So, somewhere I saw these lines like "Garamond:=1;xnumb" or something which you write in the font selection field in your word processor.

Can someone provide a syntax description for the selcetion field and maybe further information on AOO and OpenType?

[RGB]

AOO do not understand OpenType substitution tables: Bug 16032 - OOo should support optional OpenType features.

The only smart font technology supported by AOO is graphite. Graphite is an awesome font technology, but unfortunately there are only a few fonts that use it, mostly for non western languages. The most powerful Roman graphite font I'm aware of is Linux Libertine/Biolinum G, but you also have good fonts on the SIL site, like Gentium Plus.