Re: [office] Defining Alternative Glyphs

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Dave Pawson <>
Date
2008-07-08T08:47:04+00:00
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Re: [office] Defining Alternative Glyphs
2008/7/8 Thomas Zander <>:

> This is all for latin fonts, things get much more complex for minority fonts,
> so I won't explain that here. The simplest is to choose a slashed-zero in
> some cases, which is a user choice for the glyph, but manually forcing the
> usage of a ligature is another good example.
>
> In my opinion this feature is needed for making that last step from nice
> looking text to professional looking text.


In mine this is a presentation issue which should properly be
assigned to an application, the presentation layer.
Not ODF, the standard.

regards


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