Open Type features in Libre Office
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 5:07 am
I just learned that Libre Office now supports Open Type features. To my knowledge, the "support" is rather manual at this time; that is, the user must create font tags himself, modifying the font name by adding a colon followed by the four character code for the desired feature. For example, to get old style numbers using Calibri font, "Calibri:onum" would be entered in the font field. Apparently, all of the Open Type codes you all are familiar with are supported.
My question is: is there a program one can use to list the Open Type features of a given font so you would know what was doable for a given font without running FontCreator first? Such a routine must already exist and could be the basis of a graphical interface which could be written to streamline the process of accessing these features in an extension for Libre Office.
This is probably old news to the forum members here but I am really excited to be able to use Open Type features in Libre Office at last.
My question is: is there a program one can use to list the Open Type features of a given font so you would know what was doable for a given font without running FontCreator first? Such a routine must already exist and could be the basis of a graphical interface which could be written to streamline the process of accessing these features in an extension for Libre Office.
This is probably old news to the forum members here but I am really excited to be able to use Open Type features in Libre Office at last.