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Italics: Apply italic glyphs.
Fractions: Apply slashed fraction glyphs.
Swashes: Apply calligraphic glyphs.
Ordinals: Apply ordinal number glyphs.
Titling Alternates: Apply capital letter glyphs designed for titles at larger point sizes.
Contextual Alternates: Apply alternate glyph variations based on contextual juxtapositions
of text.
Localized Forms: Replace default forms of glyphs with localized forms.
H\V Kana Alternates: Apply specially designed horizontal or vertical Kana forms that
correspond with the story direction (vertical or horizontal).
Position: Apply superscript, subscript, scientific inferior, numerator, and denominator
glyphs to selected text.
Alternate Metrics: Apply alternate widths for heights based on story direction (vertical or
horizontal).
Alternate Vertical Half Metrics: Fit full-em height glyphs to half-em heights.
Alternate Vertical Metrics: Center glyphs inside a full-em height.
Proportional Alternate Vertical Metrics: Fit glyphs to individual, proportional heights.
Full Widths: Replace glyphs set on other em widths with glyphs set on full-em widths.
Half Widths: Replace full-em width glyphs with half-em width glyphs.
Alternate Half Widths: Fit full-em width glyphs to half-em widths.
Third Widths: Replace glyphs set on other em widths with glyphs set on third-em widths.
Quarter Widths: Replace glyphs set on other em widths with glyphs set on quarter-em
widths.
Proportional Alternate Widths: Fit glyphs to individual, proportional widths.
Alternate Forms: Apply alternate glyph forms, such as JIS2004, JIS78, JIS90, Simplified,
and Traditional. These glyph forms are specially designed for some Japanese OpenType
fonts.
Using ligatures
There are two methods for using ligatures: The legacy method or the OpenType method.
The legacy method supports standard ligatures such as fi and fl in PostScript fonts. The
OpenType method allows access to both standard ligatures and discretionary ligatures in
OpenType fonts. Both methods are applied as character attributes, meaning that you can
apply them to any selected text.
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