At 08:40 +0100 2002-11-22, Thomas Lotze wrote:
Then what's the way to distinguish between lining and text figures in plain text?
There isn't one. That's typography, not character identity.
Can this distinction really only be achieved when typesetting the text, by switching between two fonts, one for each kind of numerals?
Yes, and rightly so. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
