OpenType and paragraph styles
Posted: 2011-06-23 08:23:12
I’m learning that an OpenType font contains more than one typestyle as compared with previous font versions such as PostScript and TrueType. With these older versions, typestyles were separate, a font contained only one typestyle, and the name of that typestyle, e.g. Palatino Small Caps & Old Style Figures, was accessible in the menus and palettes of Nisus Writer Express. That easily permitted the formation of a Paragraph Style or a Character Style. Now with OpenType, small caps and old style figures are contained within the fonts called Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic.
Aside from using PopChar Pro or the Macintosh’s Keyboard Viewer, which would be tedious accessing one character at a time in small caps, let’s say, there must be a way in Nisus Writer Express to access those small caps as a style to build a Paragraph or Character Style just as you would with PostScript and TrueType fonts and then be able to apply the style to selected text.
Can someone please help me learn how to deal with this issue of accessing typestyles from within OpenType fonts to help build Paragraph Styles in Nisus Writer Express?
Currently, I’m using Nisus Writer Express 3.3.2. The computer is a Mac G4, operating with OS X 10.5.8.
Aside from using PopChar Pro or the Macintosh’s Keyboard Viewer, which would be tedious accessing one character at a time in small caps, let’s say, there must be a way in Nisus Writer Express to access those small caps as a style to build a Paragraph or Character Style just as you would with PostScript and TrueType fonts and then be able to apply the style to selected text.
Can someone please help me learn how to deal with this issue of accessing typestyles from within OpenType fonts to help build Paragraph Styles in Nisus Writer Express?
Currently, I’m using Nisus Writer Express 3.3.2. The computer is a Mac G4, operating with OS X 10.5.8.