On Monday 15 May 2006 14:11, Louis Desjardins wrote: > > Well, I had figured that solution out, is there no way of substituting > > (globally) the numbers of the regular font with another? I know that is > > mixing of fonts, which should be avoided generally, but in this case > > this solution could be prone to create errors as well, a last minute > > change in the text, and suddenly we have both old style figures and > > majuscle numbers in the same text. > > You're absolutely right pointing at the "creating errors" issue. There > is no better way at the moment (unless something could be done with > scripting, but I cannot advise on this). But the issue is known and > there are plans to have a "super search & replace" function that would > allow to handle these cases in one single operation.
In this case, OpenType functions ? la InDesign would be much better than a S&R. I assume it would not be that difficult, given that it seems glyphs have standardized names (at least that's what it seems in all the fonts I've opened so far).
