[OS X TeX] OT: Pages from iWork
Simon Spiegel
simon at simifilm.ch
Thu Feb 10 12:24:30 CET 2005
On 10.02.2005, at 12:17, Ingo Reich wrote:
>
> Am 08.02.2005 um 01:30 schrieb Bruno Voisin:
>
>> Some OT reflections on first minutes of use of a just installed Pages:
>
> Hi Bruno,
> do you know whether Pages has 'real' OpenType support, i.e., whether
> oldstyle numerals and real small caps from OpenType fonts like, e.g.,
> Garamond Pro are easily accessible (via OS X's character palette). I
> tried this recently in Word 2004 and Apple Works 6 (for a colleague of
> mine!), but it seems only to be possible with SimpleText (more
> precisely: I only succeeded using Simple Text).
> Ingo
Pages has no real OpenType support which isn't surprising since OSX
doesn't offer this. About the only app I know which has complete
OpenType support is Mellel. I really hope that the situation will
improve with Tiger, but I'm not very optimistic since I haven't seen
this mentioned yet.
simon
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