Re: OpenType Features

[Simon Albrecht]

On 31.01.2016 16:39, Jay Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
> > It definitely looks like a good way to go, except that I wouldn’t know how
> > to use multiple features at the same time. Would it be possible to input
> > font-features as a symbol list, i.e. (random example)
> > { \override TextScript.font-features = onum.smcp 4-"foo" }
> > ossia
> > \markup { \override #'(font-features . (onum smcp)) "foo" } ?
> > Or at least as a list of strings.
> Right they can be combined as a string:
>
> \markup { \override #'(font-features . "onum,smcp") { Hello 0123456789 } }
>
> But this isn't especially flexible or obvious with regards to
> combining features (like you said). I'll think about your other
> suggestions. Thanks.

Reading the docs for <http://ctan.org/pkg/fontspec> gave me more to 
think about: we might even use an alist to allow for things like
\override font-features.ligatures = #'(clig dlig hlig)
or
\override font-features.number-case = #'onum

Though, that would be even more complicated, I suppose.

Yours, Simon