From: Adam Twardoch (list.adam@twardoch.com)
Date: Tue Aug 23 2005 - 18:32:24 CDT
John Hudson wrote:
> Actually, Adobe is the company that currently fails to fully implement
> GSUB capabilities, because none of their apps support one-to-many
> substitutions (GSUB lookup type 2).
...except in the Middle East editions of Adobe Creative Suite
applications, prepared by Winsoft.
> Microsoft supports all lookup types.
...except with some hard-wired limitations that lead to strange effects
if you apply 7 or 8 GSUB LookupType 2 substitutions one after another ;)
> If you are talking about support for GSUB related OTL features, then
> no one supports all the registered features.
Ironically, Apple seems to be the one with the largest nominal number of
registered OpenType Layout features supported in the Mac OS X 10.4 (in
applications that use ATSUI one way or the other). However, since Mac OS
X only supports a small subset of lookup types, the actual number of
effectively supported features is smaller, but still impressive. Mac OS
X 10.4 is the first operating system to support your favorite
typographic feature, John: "petite caps" :)
A.
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