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:

1. aalt – Access All Alternates
2. afrc – Alternative Fractions
3. c2sc – Small Capitals From Capitals
4. calt – Contextual Alternates
5. case – Case-Sensitive Forms
6. clig – Contextual Ligatures
7. cpsp – Capital Spacing
8. cwsh – Contextual Swash
9. dlig – Discretionary Ligatures
10. dnom – Denominators
11. expt – Expert Forms
12. frac – Fractions
13. fwid – Full Widths
14. halt – Alternate Half Widths
15. hist – Historical Forms
16. hkna – Horizontal Kana Alternates
17. hngl – Hangul
18. hojo – Hojo Kanji Forms (JIS X 0212-1990 Kanji Forms)
19. hwid – Half Widths
20. ital – Italics
21. jp04 – JIS2004 Forms
22. jp78 – JIS78 Forms
23. jp83 – JIS83 Forms
24. jp90 – JIS90 Forms
25. kern – Kerning
26. liga – Standard Ligatures
27. lnum – Lining Figures
28. locl – Localized Forms
29. nlck – NLC Kanji Forms
30. numr – Numerators
31. onum – Oldstyle Figures
32. ordn – Ordinals
33. ornm – Ornaments
34. palt – Proportional Alternate Widths
35. pnum – Proportional Figures
36. pwid – Proportional Widths
37. qwid – Quarter Widths
38. ruby – Ruby Notation Forms
39. salt – Stylistic Alternates
40. sinf – Scientific Inferiors
41. smcp – Small Capitals
42. smpl – Simplified Forms
43. ss01 – Stylistic Set 1
44. ss02 – Stylistic Set 2
45. ss03 – Stylistic Set 3
46. ss04 – Stylistic Set 4
47. ss05 – Stylistic Set 5
48. ss06 – Stylistic Set 6
49. ss07 – Stylistic Set 7
50. ss08 – Stylistic Set 8
51. ss09 – Stylistic Set 9
52. ss10 – Stylistic Set 10
53. ss11 – Stylistic Set 11
54. ss12 – Stylistic Set 12
55. ss13 – Stylistic Set 13
56. ss14 – Stylistic Set 14
57. ss15 – Stylistic Set 15
58. ss16 – Stylistic Set 16
59. ss17 – Stylistic Set 17
60. ss18 – Stylistic Set 18
61. ss19 – Stylistic Set 19
62. ss20 – Stylistic Set 20
63. subs – Subscript
64. sups – Superscript
65. swsh – Swash
66. titl – Titling Alternates
67. tnam – Traditional Name Forms
68. tnum – Tabular Figures
69. trad – Traditional Forms
70. twid – Third Widths
71. valt – Alternate Vertical Metrics
72. vrt2 – Vertical Writing
73. vhal – Alternate Vertical Half Metrics
74. vkna – Vertical Kana Alternates
75. vkrn – Vertical Kerning
76. vpal – Proportional Alternate Vertical Metrics
77. zero – Slashed Zero

QuarkXPress 2016 also supports 5 OpenType baseline tags through Character Alignment feature:

1. icfb – Ideographic character face bottom edge baseline
2. icft – Ideographic character face top edge baseline
3. ideo – Ideographic em-box bottom edge baseline
4. idtp – Ideographic em-box top edge baseline
5. 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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Matthias Guenther

Both an engineer and a layout artist, Matthias bridges the gap between technology and people. Before joining Quark in 1997, Matthias pioneered print, Web, and multimedia products for multiple German publishing companies. He is an active participant in design and publishing communities and represented Quark in the Ghent PDF Workgroup.

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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