[XeTeX] XeTeX OpenType Features bug?

[Stephen Moye]

Very true. But, though Apple champions the font and has included it in the OS since 1991, it is peculiarly limited in utility. Though the small-caps issue is more-or-less settled, the absence of pre-built fractions and the inability to use the font’s sub/super/scripts or numerators/denominators is an ongoing source of irritation, at least to me… I can see the glyphs in FontBook, but there seems to be no way to use them — at least in TeX. The more irritating as it is a beautiful typeface.

SGM

PS. By the way I’d love to be proven wrong about the sub/super/script and numerator/denominator issues ;>)

> On Oct 27, 2023, at 5:23 PM, David Barts via XeTeX <xetex at tug.org> wrote:
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> Yes, Apple ships a very nice set of fonts standard with MacOS. It’s one of the reasons I’m a Mac user, as one could easily spend hundreds (or maybe low thousands) licensing all those fonts individually. Makes the Apple price premium pay for itself.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Oct 26, 2023, at 04:42, Stephen Moye via XeTeX <xetex at tug.org> wrote:
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>> And a nice surprise: Not many fonts, even those labelled ‘pro’, contain italic, bold, and bold-italic small caps:
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>> <Screen Shot 2023-10-26 at 7.39.44 AM.png>
>> <hoefler-sc.tex>
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>>> On Oct 26, 2023, at 7:03 AM, Stephen Moye via XeTeX <xetex at tug.org> wrote:
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>>> Ah, and very useful. I have worked out the following as a possible approach… and begins to make Hoefler a bit more useful. Suggestions/improvements?
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>>> <Screen Shot 2023-10-26 at 6.59.57 AM.png><hoefler-sc.tex>
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>>>>> On Oct 25, 2023, at 11:56 PM, David Barts via XeTeX <xetex at tug.org> wrote:
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>>>> <smcp1.tex>
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