Superscript and Subscript Characters in General Use

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Jan 12 09:01:41 CST 2017


On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 03:22:18PM +0100, Marcel Schneider wrote:
> > This is done by HarfBuzz which automatically activates OpenType 
> > frac/dnom/numr features for  sequences, 
> > so if the font has the features one gets vulgar fractions out of box. 
> 
> According to Wikipedia (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarfBuzz#Major_users
> ), HarfBuzz is included in LibreOffice too, but being on Windows, despite of 
> having just installed the brandnew version 5.2.4.2, I still donʼt get it, since 
> it comes with 5.3: 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3#Text_Layout

LibreOffice indeed did not use HarfBuzz on Windows before 5.3, which is
not released yet.

Regards,
Khaled


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