Lekhana OpenType

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

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Typeface Sample

Lekhana is my version of Zapf’s Chancery typeface. It has several distinctive features that set it apart — italic and bold italic typestyles, as well as regular and bold, several ligatures, and the usual wide range of glyphs supporting Basic Greek, and Latin Extended character sets. This is my first font with OpenType features for using oldstyle figures, ligatures, scientific inferiors, and superscripts in applications that support them.

[Jowaco]

I have been informed (Joop Jaggers) that MSWord 2003 supports OpenType features. Well then; now I have the application and suitable fonts, 'Lekhana' and 'Garava' (by virtue of Bhikkhu Pesala) to type nut fractions. The only thing missing is the knowledge of how it can be done using these tools!

Joe.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

From PC Review

MS Word supports the use of the basic text and Unicode portions of OpenType fonts (OpenType TT and
some OpenType .PS fonts (look at the Font listing in Windows Control panel in icon view and you'll note that fonts such as Arial
show as OpenType). Word doesn't support the advanced feature sets of the OpenType standards fully such as those in the expert set
fonts, but Vista does have some support capabilities that Windows XP currently does not.

I think you may find that the OpenType ligatures are supported in Word — type Qu Th or sp with one of my fonts, and see if it changes — but to access the Nut Fractions you will have to use Insert Symbol, and select them from the Private Use Area, just as in PagePlus.

I see that i could add Glyph Substitutions for 1/2 -> ½ etc., which should work automatically in OpenType aware programs. This could also be done with Autocorrect, which could also be used to insert the Nut Fractions. The Autocorrect method works fine in OpenOffice, but you have to type a space to get the glyph substitution.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Updated to version 1.40 with a full set of Stacking Fractions, Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbats for Unicode 6.

Added OpenType features for Fractions, Discretionary Ligatures, Ornaments, Stylistic Alternates, Alternate Annotation Forms, Historical Forms, and Terminal Forms.

This is a tutorial about using OpenType Features in PagePlus X5 or later.

Edit: Fixed the Created and Modified Time Stamps.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Lekhana 1.51 was released, with improved OpenType features for Fractions, Alternative Annotation Forms, and Stylistic Sets. Some glyphs were added include Turkish Lira to bring it up to date for Unicode version 6.2.

The script used to add the OpenType features was added to the archive and the Layout and Contents setting was reverted to version 3 so that features can be tested in the TrueType Viewer