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onum feature in InDesign

Ken Krugh0 votes

Using Fontlab 5.0.4 and adding an onum feature to a font that's generated as OTF.

I've added just the onum feature but InDesign CS6 has activated both the "Proportional Oldtyle" menu as well as the "Tabular Oldstyle" menu.

Is that something InD just does or is there something I've done wrong?

Feature is pretty simple, I've created an onum1 and onum2 class, the feature is simply:

feature onum {
# Latin (default)
sub @onum1 by @onum2;
script grek;
sub @onum1 by @onum2;
} onum;

Thanks for reading,
Ken

David Yoon0 votes

This is something that InDesign just does. See comments by Thomas Phinney in a previous thread:
http://typophile.com/node/16330

Nick Shinn0 votes

I include all four basic figure styles in fonts that have upper and lower case.
Consequently, it doesn’t look like there’s something missing (greyed out) when users go to the OT figure palette.

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