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Hello Pravin, I was wondering whether you might consider adding text figures to your fonts. That'd be great and I don't think it'll take you long. Regards
Some reference please :)
Sorry, I thought you already knew about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures Hope it suffices.
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Hello everybody, a year has elapsed since I filed this feature request. May I kindly ask you if you're planning to implement it? Regards,
Apologies for being so late on it. This is not in plan presently. Can you provide reference of any other fonts providing this support?
Hello! I hope these two suffice: http://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-3/numbers/oldstyle-figures http://practicaltypography.com/alternate-figures.html Regards
As far as I know, Linux Libertine O does it, so do Minion Pro and EB Garamond.
(In reply to Alessandro Ceschini from comment #6) > Hello! > > I hope these two suffice: > http://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-3/numbers/oldstyle- > figures > http://practicaltypography.com/alternate-figures.html > Looking at this. Only missing part is "Oldstyle figures" As you know, The Liberation(tm) Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New. 1. If Text figure are part of these fonts. It makes strong case. 2. If you can come up with patch i can review and push to liberation git.
Hello Pravin, 1. I don't know much about that, I've not been running a Windows platform for ten years. Back in Windows XP days, no, there was no support for Oldstyle figures, but then there was also no support whatsoever for Opentype so the issue was rather moot. I know the latest versions of Office DO include support for Opentype, so I guess Microsoft fonts may have been updated. But it's only a guess. 2. I'm sorry, I'm no font designer, I'm afraid I cannot help you with that. Regards,
No problem. We have already marked it as a RFE. Let me see if someone can jump in for helping to add this feature, then we can complete this.
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Created attachment 1290877 [details] Text figures for TNR and Arial (In reply to Pravin Satpute from comment #8) > (In reply to Alessandro Ceschini from comment #6) > > Hello! > > > > I hope these two suffice: > > http://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-3/numbers/oldstyle- > > figures > > http://practicaltypography.com/alternate-figures.html > > > Looking at this. Only missing part is "Oldstyle figures" > > As you know, The Liberation(tm) Fonts is a font family which aims at metric > compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New. > > 1. If Text figure are part of these fonts. It makes strong case. > 2. If you can come up with patch i can review and push to liberation git. Windows 10 version of Arial and Times New Roman have already supported old-style figures, they can be available via activiting 'onum' feature, also implemented proportional figures ('pnum'). In LibreOffice 5.3.0 and newer you can get them in this way: set the font face into Arial or Times New Roman, then input the syntex ":onum=1" after font name and press Enter, then you will see the effect. You can try to use Windows 10 virtual machine to test if you don’t use Windows. https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
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As this feature is already available in other fonts. Good to have this in Liberation as well.
I think good to consider compatibility with other common office fonts. Any reason not to use the existing fonts for your use-case? As Pravin suggested earlier "prior art" would strengthen this suggestion.
eg Microsoft Arial, also Google Caladea and Carlito fonts all have aligned figures (digits): I am sure there are other examples.
To clarify my last comment: I don't think we should change the style of the font for digits like this.
I think we should use Ariel, Times New Roman, and Courier, etc as references to decide if any stylist change makes sense. Mainly we should just focus on bug fixes and not making changes to the font.