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 :-)