[XeTeX] Roman Numerals as stylistic alternatives

[Tobias Schoel]

hi,

that's a good answer. is there such an opentype feature / fonts 
supporting it?

bye

Toscho

Am 19.06.2011 15:33, schrieb mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Tobias Schoel wrote:
>> if I understand correctly, that way the output still shows the letters or the
>> deprecated unicode codepoints. It should be analog to medieval / lowercase
>> numbers. E.g. it's still the number 123 it only uses different glyphs. So when
>> I copypaste it, it shows the number 123 and not cxxiii.
>
> I think the only plausible way for that to happen would be for it to be a
> feature of the font, specifically a type of ligature substitution that
> replaces the numeral glyphs with appropriate other glyphs while naming
> them such that reader software can determine the original sequence of code
> points.  If it's built into the font as an OpenType feature, then you
> could turn it on with fontspec.  But it would be a feature of the font,
> not a feature of fontspec; wanting fontspec to do it in a font that
> doesn't have such a feature built in would make about as much sense as
> wanting a fontspec feature to enable Tamil script in a font that only
> contains Latin glyphs.