QuarkXPress 2016 now supports 77 OpenType features (plus 5)
Here’s a list of all 77 OpenType features supported by the user interface of QuarkXPress 2016 (12.2), both Run based features and Glyph based features:
- aalt – Access All Alternates
- afrc – Alternative Fractions
- c2sc – Small Capitals From Capitals
- calt – Contextual Alternates
- case – Case-Sensitive Forms
- clig – Contextual Ligatures
- cpsp – Capital Spacing
- cwsh – Contextual Swash
- dlig – Discretionary Ligatures
- dnom – Denominators
- expt – Expert Forms
- frac – Fractions
- fwid – Full Widths
- halt – Alternate Half Widths
- hist – Historical Forms
- hkna – Horizontal Kana Alternates
- hngl – Hangul
- hojo – Hojo Kanji Forms (JIS X 0212-1990 Kanji Forms)
- hwid – Half Widths
- ital – Italics
- jp04 – JIS2004 Forms
- jp78 – JIS78 Forms
- jp83 – JIS83 Forms
- jp90 – JIS90 Forms
- kern – Kerning
- liga – Standard Ligatures
- lnum – Lining Figures
- locl – Localized Forms
- nlck – NLC Kanji Forms
- numr – Numerators
- onum – Oldstyle Figures
- ordn – Ordinals
- ornm – Ornaments
- palt – Proportional Alternate Widths
- pnum – Proportional Figures
- pwid – Proportional Widths
- qwid – Quarter Widths
- ruby – Ruby Notation Forms
- salt – Stylistic Alternates
- sinf – Scientific Inferiors
- smcp – Small Capitals
- smpl – Simplified Forms
- ss01 – Stylistic Set 1
- ss02 – Stylistic Set 2
- ss03 – Stylistic Set 3
- ss04 – Stylistic Set 4
- ss05 – Stylistic Set 5
- ss06 – Stylistic Set 6
- ss07 – Stylistic Set 7
- ss08 – Stylistic Set 8
- ss09 – Stylistic Set 9
- ss10 – Stylistic Set 10
- ss11 – Stylistic Set 11
- ss12 – Stylistic Set 12
- ss13 – Stylistic Set 13
- ss14 – Stylistic Set 14
- ss15 – Stylistic Set 15
- ss16 – Stylistic Set 16
- ss17 – Stylistic Set 17
- ss18 – Stylistic Set 18
- ss19 – Stylistic Set 19
- ss20 – Stylistic Set 20
- subs – Subscript
- sups – Superscript
- swsh – Swash
- titl – Titling Alternates
- tnam – Traditional Name Forms
- tnum – Tabular Figures
- trad – Traditional Forms
- twid – Third Widths
- valt – Alternate Vertical Metrics
- vrt2 – Vertical Writing
- vhal – Alternate Vertical Half Metrics
- vkna – Vertical Kana Alternates
- vkrn – Vertical Kerning
- vpal – Proportional Alternate Vertical Metrics
- zero – Slashed Zero
QuarkXPress 2016 also supports 5 OpenType baseline tags through Character Alignment feature:
- icfb – Ideographic character face bottom edge baseline
- icft – Ideographic character face top edge baseline
- ideo – Ideographic em-box bottom edge baseline
- idtp – Ideographic em-box top edge baseline
- romn – The baseline used by simple alphabetic scripts such as Latin, Cyrillic and Greek
To see what these features mean and to see an explanation of the four-letter-code, please refer to the OpenType reference:
https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/featurelist.htm
and
https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/baselinetags.htm
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From 1997 until 2019 Matthias played a central role in shaping Quark’s desktop, mobile and enterprise software. From February 2014 until January 2019 he headed Quark’s Desktop Publishing business unit; and was therefore responsible for QuarkXPress.
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