Re: Oldstyle Figures (OSF) from OpenType Font

[Nick Payne]

On 22/04/12 08:26, Urs Liska wrote:
> Thanks for pointing to this, Werner.
>
> Just a question:
> In the issue report you say, LilyPond doesn't currenty (i.e. Nov 2010) 
> support OpenType features.
> LilyPond does support ligatures and kerning (at least on Linux, it 
> seems this doesn't work on Windows). Are these no OpenType features? 
> Or have there been improvements since your report?

You could use a font that defaults to old style figures. For example, 
Spectrum MT:

\relative c'' {
    c4^\markup { \override #'(font-name . "SpectrumMT SC") "0123456789" }
}

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