Re: death to word

  • From: Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:11:50 +0100

Dare I say that I find Word 2010 not that bad on a recent laptop? Quite zippy, for Word. And there is a notable point in its favor: it is one of the few programs that will honor typographical enhancements in OpenType fonts such as automatic ligatures and (support for this is rarer still - - for example Quark 8 and 9 don't have it though InDesign does) OpenType stylistic sets. Unfortunately, support for OpenType small caps is not present yet, though it does appear to work with the admittedly less than stellar "C" fonts that Microsoft commissioned to showcase 'Cleartype' a few years ago. There is something weird and perhaps nasty that MS is allowing its own fonts to employ true small caps but not allowing other fonts to follow suit. You see the same thing in Character Map in Windows 7, so it is obviously an OS-level decision. Yet programs such as Quark and InDesign _can_ access the small caps in these fonts -- so what gives?


At 5/16/2012 01:22 AM, you wrote:
I agree with all the strictures re. Word, which is now really intolerable, but was never--in comparison with Xy--satisfactory.


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