[OS X TeX] OT: Pages from iWork

[Ingo Reich]

Hi Simon,
thanks for your suggestion; seems to be a very interesting, useful and 
cheap (!) little program.
Ingo

Am 10.02.2005 um 12:24 schrieb Simon Spiegel:

>
> 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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