Accessing old style figures of Cambria and other new OTfonts

[PJDosey]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

Some of the new fonts like Cambria, Calibri etc offer a wealth of special characters and alternative letterforms, such as old style figures and small caps. Is there any way to access them or to set the default behaviour of Word to using old style figures? How can I get the real small caps (available in these fonts), instead of the artificial ones? The same question for super- and subscripts.

 

[John McGhie]

My understanding is that Word will automatically use all of the new features
of the new fonts when its ligatures bugs are fixed.

I am expecting the ligature bug to be fixed this year (I was expecting it to
already have been fixed, but I was wrong )

There is no setting in Word that enables them, they should just "appear".

However, some of the characters you refer to are glyph variants. Word 2008
does not support glyph variants. Maybe next time...

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power P

Some of the new fonts like Cambria, Calibri etc offer a wealth of special
characters and alternative letterforms, such as old style figures and small
caps. Is there any way to access them or to set the default behaviour of Word
to using old style figures? How can I get the real small caps (available in
these fonts), instead of the artificial ones? The same question for super- and
subscripts.

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