Re: Oldstyle Figures (OSF) from OpenType Font

[Werner LEMBERG]

> In the issue report you say, LilyPond doesn't currenty (i.e. Nov
> 2010) support OpenType features.

Yes.

> LilyPond does support ligatures and kerning (at least on Linux, it
> seems this doesn't work on Windows). Are these no OpenType features?

Today, kerning is usually realized with a feature, yes.  And having
ligatures certainly is.

> Or have there been improvements since your report?

Features which are activated by default are seen by lilypond also.
For example, handling of Arabic needs a lot of OpenType support, and
this is provided by Pango automatically.

However, we need a mechanism to activate optional features.  And to
answer your question from the other mail: Yes, this is a non-trivial
task to implement.


    Werner