[Issue 125288] New: add support for "Text figures", or Old Style numbers in formatting

[bu...@apache.org]

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125288

          Issue ID: 125288
        Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
           Summary: add support for "Text figures", or Old Style numbers
                    in formatting
           Product: Writer
           Version: 4.1.0
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: formatting
          Assignee: issues@openoffice.apache.org
          Reporter: efa@iol.it

As now, menù Format, Character, Font Effects, Effects support:

(Without)
Capitals
Lowercase
Title
Small capitals

none has effects on numbers.

Professional desktop pubblishing applications has the "Text figures" support.
For example see:
http://helpx.adobe.com/it/indesign/using/using-fonts.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/it/indesign/using/formatting-characters.html#change_the_case_of_type
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures

Those apps take the gliphs codepoint for standard "capital" numbers, and
transform them to "Text figures", doing something similar to this:
70% body size for 0,1,2 digits, subscript plus 150% body size for 3,4,5,7,9
leaving 6 and 8 standard body size.

My suggestion is to keep Small Capitals for letter only, and add a new settings
named something like:
Text figures
that work on number doing Text figures, leaving free to select both options.

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[Issue 125288] add support for "Text figures", or Old Style numbers in formatting

[bu...@apache.org]

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125288

Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org> ---
Relevant ODF properties seem to be in
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-part1.html#__RefHeading__1419810_253892949
;
based on that, this seems to be best handled as an enhancement to
font-variant:small-caps (that could be implemented to cover digits too).

Note that it is based on
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#font-variant which still
mentions only letters and not digits.

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