This is just the default behavior, but with Word 2010 you can control it from the Advanced Tab in the Font Menu. ![]() For example, notice how the second m in the word murmur gets out of the way of the r that would otherwise encroach on its space? It's different from the first m. The letterforms will change based on the context of the other letters around them. ![]() The Gabriola font is filled with advanced Open Type features. Open Ligatures are really visible (and mind-blowing if you've expected fonts to work a certain way for 20 years like me) in complex scripts like Gabriola, one of the many new fonts that comes with Windows 7. See how the two letters flow together with ligatures? Here's more examples with words like "office," "afflict," and "fine flavor." "In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph."įor example, here's lowercase "fi" and lowercase "fl" first without ligatures, and then with: One of the cool things in OpenType and Word is the support for ligatures. Microsoft Word 2010 includes advanced support for OpenType Fonts, not just TrueType fonts. ![]() Anyone can bang out a simple document in word and/or pick a wacky font, but I wanted to try something a little different. One of those other things is doing the Agenda for the day as well as the Menus that appear on the guests' tables. My brother-in-law is getting married in a few weeks and since I'm the default IT guy for the family, I'm making CDs with CD-TEXT for the guests amongst other things.
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