6 Sep 2010 (updated 7 Sep 2010 at 17:36 UTC)
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Advanced font features in OpenOffice.org via Graphite
Now that the Graphite
smart font rendering engine is fully included upstream in OpenOffice.org, you
can more easily
enjoy all the unique font features offered by
libre/open Graphite-enabled fonts
like Charis
SIL, Doulos
SIL, Gentium
Basic,
Andika, Padauk and others...
There is also a very useful Graphite
Font Extension for OpenOffice.org by Keith Stribley from
ThanLwinSoft to allow greater control over these features.
Last week at the OpenOffice.org Conference in
Budapest,
Hungary, László Németh presented his impressive
work
on using Graphite's font features capabilities in OOo
via a branch of the Linux Libertine
open font called Magyar Linux Libertine G
and a dedicated
OOo extension.
The Graphite source code (.gdl files) for the
many smart
font features (ligatures, small caps, old style numbers,
proportional or monospaced numbers, automatic thousand
separators, minus sign, real superscript and subscript,
German umlaut variants and capital eszett, fractions, number
to number name conversion, in 23 languages) is also released.
Pretty awesome for advanced typographic flexibility,
isn't
it? And in a standards-based unencumbered cross-platform way
too :-)