[OpenType] More than 20 Stylistic Sets!

[Ken Lunde]

David,

At this point, based on the discussions thus far, I doubt that anyone can provide a convincing argument against registering 'ss21' through 'ss99' as additional Stylistic Set features.

Regards...

-- Ken

> On Mar 20, 2019, at 12:10 PM, David Lemon via OpenType <opentype-listmaster at indx.co.uk> wrote:
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> I argued for 100 stylistic sets (0-99) when the feature was first defined, and never understood the decision to limit it.
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> Clearly having more would be useful. The only concern I can imagine is implementations that fail when presented with ss21 or greater. From what people are reporting, that doesn't sound likely – but I'd hope to hear from folks at Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
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> mahalo,
> David L
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>> From: "Luc[as] de Groot via OpenType" <opentype-listmaster at indx.co.uk>
>> Sent: Mar 18, 2019 5:04 AM
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>> Subject: RE: [OpenType] More than 20 Stylistic Sets!
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>>> If 20 Stylistic Set features is not enough, shouldn't someone first submit a proposal to register more before suggesting that implementations support unregistered feature tags?
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>> Sorry I wasn't suggesting but merely observing that it works.
>> InDesign supports endless unregistered feature tags, you can activate anything with tagged text export/import.
>> I haven’t figured out though what the IDTaggedText code for ss33 would be, extrapolating values to <cOTFStylisticSets:8589934592> did not work, it seems to activate all stylistic sets. Quark's tags are more straightforward: ("ss33")
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>> We have several fonts where features had to be combined in stylistic sets, e.g. ss01 does one thing for Latin, and another for Greek, and also changes the ampersand to one of many alternatives. So yes, 99 would be awesome.
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