Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Making awesome Wedding documents using OpenType Ligatures and Stylistic Sets in Microsoft Word 2010 and Gabriola

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My brother-in-law is getting married in a few weeks and  since I'm the default IT guy for the family, I'm making CDs with CD-TEXT for the guests amongst other things. Apparently one of those other things is doing the Agenda for the day as well as the Menus that appear on the guests' tables. Anyone can bang out a simple document in word and/or pick a wacky font, but I wanted to try something a little different.

Microsoft Word 2010 includes advanced support for OpenType Fonts, not just TrueType fonts. One of the cool things in OpenType and Word is the support for ligatures. From Wikipedia:

    "In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph."


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