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Using locl feature in indesign
Hi,
I am new to this forum, and have simple question for start.
How can I instruct indesign to use locl feature to select serbian cirilic glyphs from open type font. Is it possible at all, and is there any software which I can use to get alternative serbian cyrilic glyphs directly typed from keyboard.
So far I have selected serbian cyrilic keyboard, but indesign seems not to understand that it is serbian cirilic, so I have to manualy insert alternate glyphs.
thanks in advance
robby
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9 Feb 2005 — 8:09pm
Sadly, InDesign (and other Adobe applications) do not yet support the locale ('locl') feature. We hope to see such support at some point in the future.
Regards,
T
10 Feb 2005 — 9:10am
Hi Thomas,
thanks for prompt reply.
Do you have any idea how can I use locl feature in any application on PC (or mac eventualy)? I mean it is nice to have such feature, and for typeseting cyrilic italic it is the only way to have serbian cyrilic in font, but what's the use if i have to manualy insert alternate glyph for g,p,t... for every occurence in text. Is there maybe some way to do global find/replace on the glyph level? Should I maybe tweak the font with fontographer?
thanks again
robby
14 Feb 2005 — 5:06pm
will the locl feature be implemented in the next version of InDesign? Or would a Stylistic Set be a good way to implement these kinds of alternates in the meantime?
14 Feb 2005 — 5:11pm
Sorry, been busy lately.
Unfortunately, I can't comment on features in unannounced Adobe products.
Given that the alternate glyphs would have the same underlying Unicode, I don't see anything massively wrong with using a stylistic set as well as the locale feature (though I wouldn't do it "instead of").
T
14 Feb 2005 — 6:45pm
Sorry, been busy lately.
That's ok, typophile's been down.
I don't see anything massively wrong with using a stylistic set as well as the locale feature (though I wouldn't do it "instead of").
yes, that makes much better sense.
10 Feb 2005 — 9:29am
Question regarding using 'locl' within InDesign. (Thread moved from GENERAL DISCUSSIONS)