This will state that things are turned On or Off, have been set, etc. One other clue is what shows up in the Style Settings Box at the bottom of the Dialog.
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The unknowns that remain for me are all of the Variants Controls in the Typography Section and in the Paragraph Section, Bullets & Numbering, the Style Drop-down List, which only has two options, and with no clue as to how to set a specific Style and add it to that Drop-down List. to see them in the Typography Dialog and effect them from the "New/Edit Text Style" Dialog. The Font Designer of a Font must either include features and attributes or not include them. The problem that remains is that of the available Fonts I have, none of them seem to reflect the remaining unknowns. My understanding has best improved by actually playing with the Dialogs and Fonts. That helped me to knock off several of the unknowns from my list. But again, not everything may apply to a selected Font, so to get anywhere understanding the Dialog, one must shuffle through selected some different OpenType Fonts and Standard Fonts to see what gives. I've found by opening the Typography Dialog from menus, by clicking Text > Show Typography, alongside the "New/Edit Text Style" Dialog that the true nature of some of the controls becomes evident by what shows up in the Typography Dialog as things are changed for a selected Font. I've progressed a bit further in my attempts to rationalize the "New/Edit Text Style (my term as the dialog has no name)" Dialog. One of the big confusion issues is that not everything in that Dialog may apply to a selected Font. When you edit or create a new Text Style, you get a Dialog that has many options for creating Text Style Presets. The difficult stuff concerns the Text Styles Panel, not the Character Panel or the Paragraph Panel. Thanks, but this is the easy stuff that I had no problems with. fractions > maths) or glyph alternatives (e.g. More-provides access to additional typography settings.Īlso a look into the Glyph Panel > pulldown menu for various fonts can shed some light on various glyph groups within a font (e.g.Swash-applies stroke extensions to characters throughout the text.Stylistic Sets-allows you to automatically apply a font's alternate characters throughout the text.Character variants-allows specific character variants within the text.If using an OpenType font that does not define small-caps characters, normal capitals are scaled down to the appropriate height. Small Caps-displays lower case letters as miniature upper case.All Caps-displays all selected text as upper case (or small caps, if Small Caps option selected).characters are set lower than neighbouring characters and font size is decreased. Subscript-converts text characters to subscript, i.e.characters are set higher than neighbouring characters and font size is decreased.