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ohbendy / Phake-Ramayana

The Phake Ramayana font is a traditional design based on manuscript forms. It supports Tai Phake, Tai Aiton, Tai Khamyang, Tai Turung and Tai Khamti languages.
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Accessing alternates #14

Open ohbendy opened 3 years ago

ohbendy commented 3 years ago

Just a note in case you don't know how to access the stylistic sets in a font.

In Pages, select some text, put it into Phake Ramayana font and then go to Format > Font and choose Show Fonts.

You'll then get this window. Click the thingy I've circled:

Screenshot 2021-07-23 at 12 46 24

From the menu you should select 'Typography' to get this popup:

Screenshot 2021-07-23 at 12 48 17

It has a list of the alternates you can choose. Currently we have alternate NGA (blob at the bottom), alternate HA (the non-curly version), alternate doubled -ii (one inside the other), alternate -aa (with dot), and alternate Burmese numerals.

That also works in Keynote.

Let me know what other apps you're using and we can figure out how to access the variants.

StephenMorey commented 3 years ago

Hello Ben. Do you know how to access these on a Windows machine, via Word or other programs?

ohbendy commented 3 years ago

Thanks to Stephen for the screenshot from Word. Under stylistic sets you can access the alternate forms as described above.

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ohbendy commented 3 years ago

InDesign presents all the characters and alternates in the glyph palette, though here the glyphs are rather small:

glyph palette

Stylistic sets can be accessed from the Character menu:

Opentype menu

(I have InDesign CS4 from 2005, still working fine. I believe current versions now show the names of the stylistic sets.)