Apply opentype font attributes – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Discretionary Ligatures
Fractions
Ordinal
Swash
Titling Alternatives
Contextual Alternatives
All Small Caps
Slashed Zero
Stylistic Sets
Positional Forms
For more information on OpenType fonts, see
Apply OpenType font attributes
1. Select text.
2. In the Character panel or Control panel, make sure that an OpenType font is selected.
3. Choose OpenType from the Character panel menu, and then select an OpenType attribute, such as Discretionary Ligatures or Fractions.
Features not supported in the current font appear in square brackets, such as [Swash].
You can also select OpenType font attributes when defining a paragraph or character style. Use the OpenType Features section of the Style
Options dialog box.
OpenType font attributes
When you use an OpenType font, you can select specific OpenType features from the Control panel or Character panel menu when formatting
text or when defining styles.
OpenType fonts vary greatly in the number of type styles and kinds of features they offer. If an OpenType feature is unavailable, it’s
surrounded in square brackets (such as [Swash]) in the Control panel menu.
Font designers may include optional ligatures that shouldn’t be turned on in all circumstances. Selecting this option
allows these additional optional ligatures to be used, if they are present. For more information on ligatures, see Apply ligatures to letter pairs.
Numbers separated by a slash (such as 1/2) are converted to a fraction character, when fractions are available.
Ordinal numbers such as 1st and 2nd are formatted with superscript letters (1 and 2 ) when ordinals are available. Letters such as the
superscript a and o in the Spanish words segunda (2 ) and segundo (2 ) are also typeset properly.
When available, regular and contextual swashes, which may include alternate caps and end-of-word alternatives, are provided.
When available, characters used for uppercase titles are activated. In some fonts, selecting this option for text formatted in
both uppercase and lowercase letters can yield undesired effects.
When available, contextual ligatures and connecting alternates are activated. Alternate characters are included in some
script typefaces to provide better joining behavior. For example, the letter pair “bl” in the word “bloom” can be joined so that it looks more like
handwriting. This option is selected by default.
For fonts that include real small caps, selecting this option turns characters into small caps. For more information, see Change
the case of type.
Selecting this options displays the number 0 with a diagonal slash through it. In some fonts (especially condensed fonts), it can be
difficult to distinguish between the number 0 and the capital letter O.
Some OpenType fonts include alternate glyph sets designed for esthetic effect. A stylistic set is a group of glyph alternates that can
be applied one character at a time or to a range of text. If you select a different stylistic set, the glyphs defined in the set are used instead of the
font’s default glyphs. If a glyph character in a stylistic set is used in conjunction with another OpenType setting, the glyph from the individual
setting overrides the character set glyph. You can see the glyphs for each set using the Glyphs panel.
In some cursive scripts and in languages such as Arabic, what a character looks like can depend on its position inside a word.
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