[XeTeX] Minion Pro Sylistic Alternates in Win32 XeTeX

[Adam Twardoch]

Garamond Premier Pro still uses PUA. It is only their newest fonts (Arno 
Pro and Hypatia Sans Pro), which will be available along with Creative 
Suite 3, that don’t use PUA codepoints.

There are no "de-facto" PUA codepoints for small caps etc. Adobe used 
their PUA consistently for the OpenType fonts they produced in the past 
(each font that had small caps had the same PUA codepoints assigned to 
them) but other vendors have used different PUA assignments (though some 
have used Adobe’s). Some vendors have not used any PUA assignments at 
all for glyphs that are not default representations of Unicode characters.

A.

James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "Micah" == Micah Cowan <micah at cowan.name> writes:
>>>>>>             
>
> Micah> However: it happens that the stylistic capitals are mapped to
> Micah> Unicode codepoints that fall within the "Private Use" areas of
> Micah> Unicode. These codepoints may in fact be a "de facto" standard
> Micah> for these characters, as at least one other font recognized
> Micah> them as the same characters that Minion uses at the same
> Micah> location.
>
> Adobe reps have said that they regret making the alternate glyphs
> available in the Private Use block and plan on leaving all alternate
> glyphs unencoded in future releases.  Meaning they would only be
> available via OT features.
>
> I *think* I recall that Garamond Premier Pro follows that new
> standard, and I'm sure the bonus font included in the beta for
> photoshop does.
>
> -JimC
>   


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