[Solved] Old Style Figures - Any fonts working with Writer

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EinarFlydal
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[Solved] Old Style Figures - Any fonts working with Writer

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I just bought a font where Old Style Figures is an option, only to discover that OO Writer cannot show the figures as old style fonts.
Does anyone know any professional fonts of type Garamond, Sabon or similar that work with old style fonts on OO Writer?

Would be most greatful!

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How did you discover that the fonts will not work with OO Writer?
Did you install the font package through Windows? Fonts have to be installed at an operating system level.
Was Writer open or closed when you did the installation? OpenOffice only checks/loads fonts that are registered with the operating system when OpenOffice is started.
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The font I bought, works well in OO Writer, but there is no tool in Writer to chose the old style figures (and other features), it seems, like there is in e.g. MS Word, and - according to what I have read, Libre Office.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "old style figures" but is it possible they may be accessed via Insert | Special Characters?
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If LibreOffice supports the features you want and OpenOffice doesn't, then use LibreOffice.
Many helpers have OpenOffice and LibreOffice, and some have multiple versions of one or more of these.
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Thank you for your answers and suggestions!
robleyd wrote:I'm not sure what you mean by "old style figures" but is it possible they may be accessed via Insert | Special Characters?
Old Style Figures (OsF) means e.g. the numbers 3 and 9 are shown lowered like g, and 0 is like an o. Sevaral fonts can be adjusted in menus to show figures like that way (and to adjust other features).
RusselB wrote:If LibreOffice supports the features you want and OpenOffice doesn't, then use LibreOffice.
Many helpers have OpenOffice and LibreOffice, and some have multiple versions of one or more of these.
Such switches is not what you wish when IT development is not your business, but you just use the Writer as a tool - in my case a 600 pages book manuscript. Then you are afraid of any such changes. Therefore, I was looking for a font set that does not require me to leave OOWriter; a font that comes with OsF as default, would probably do the job. The soultion seems to be to talk with the font specialists if there is noone familiar with the topic here.

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There's an add-on you can download and install called the "Typographic Toolbar" that does Old Style Figures. It works in the stock LibreOffice menuing layout, not the newer Notebookbar (which makes LO look a bit like MS Office).

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/exte ... hy-toolbar

It works with one set of fonts called graphite fonts, and as far as I am aware, only Linux Libertine G (and 'O') and Linux Biolinium G are supported which you have to download separately from numbertext.org:

http://www.numbertext.org/linux/

Been using these packages since they came out in 2013.

These items are both FREE.

Hope this works out for 'ya.
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