In example 3 in Figure 10, I selected the former option (and selected the Direct Selection tool to show the path ends).Ĭonveniently, this feature is also found in three other areas of the InDesign interface: This setting applies both to the beginning and ending arrowheads. In addition, there are two new Align options: arrowheads can be aligned so the arrowhead extends beyond the path end, or aligns just to the end of the path. This time, the link is called “Link start and end arrowhead scales.” When the link is clicked on, if you enter a new value for the start arrowhead, the end arrowhead scaling will change in proportion. As in other places in the InDesign interface, a “link” icon can be turned on or off. Now, both the beginning and ending arrowheads have an option to set the percentage of scaling, found underneath the appropriate Start/End menu of arrowhead choices in the Stroke panel. #4 has the same values as in #3, but the “Swap start and end arrowheads” icon is clicked. When the Start value is set to 60%, the End value is automatically changed to 120%. #3, to scale both Start and End in proportion, click the Lock option. #2, with the Link option deselected, when the Start value is changed to 50% to produce a better result, the End value is not changed. #1, Start and End values both set to 100% the Start value appears out of scale for the stroke weight. Figure 8 shows an example of two alternate glyphs for the letter a, one of the many sets included in Hypatia Sans Pro.įigure 10: New arrowhead scaling controls in the Stroke panel now match those in Adobe Illustrator. You’ll see them in the Glyphs panel Show menu (which displays glyphs by their attributes), in the Character and Control panel menus ( OpenType > Stylistic Sets), and in the Character Styles and Paragraph Styles OpenType Features entries.Įven better, when combined with the OpenType contextual menu for a text frame or selection, you can see where the alternate forms will be applied, and turn them on and off easily. Now they are named wherever they are referenced in InDesign.
In previous InDesign versions, if a font had named stylistic sets, only their numbers were displayed, and the names were ignored.
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For example, Hypatia Sans Pro has 14 stylistic sets with names such as “Stylistic set: sans serif forms,” “Stylistic set: simple lowercase forms,” and so on. Other more recent fonts give meaningful names that make them easier and more efficient to work with. That makes them particularly mysterious, because you have to experiment to discover what the set actually does. Some earlier OpenType fonts (such as the richly styled Gabriola font from Microsoft) may simply number the sets: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, and so on. Turning on each additional set adds new alternates. Unlike with character styles, you can apply more than one stylistic set to a single block of text. This eliminates the task of selecting each alternate character individually, which is time consuming in large amounts of text. Stylistic sets are preselected groupings which allow for the global insertion of anywhere from one to twenty sets of alternates. This rather mysterious feature is finally made accessible and understandable in this InDesign release. Some OpenType fonts with many alternate characters have them grouped into stylistic sets. Using the Mysterious OpenType Stylistic Sets Currently, this feature is only available for the English language. Similarly, if you select a number such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., the menu suggests the ordinal versions if they are available in the current font.
Figure 7: Contextual menus are now available for ordinals and ligatures.
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