Re: death to word

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Dare I say that I find Word 2010 not that bad on a recent laptop?
Quite zippy, for Word. And there is a notable point in its favor: it
is one of the few programs that will honor typographical enhancements
in OpenType fonts such as automatic ligatures and (support for this
is rarer still - - for example Quark 8 and 9 don't have it though
InDesign does) OpenType stylistic sets. Unfortunately, support for
OpenType small caps is not present yet, though it does appear to work
with the admittedly less than stellar "C" fonts that Microsoft
commissioned to showcase 'Cleartype' a few years ago. There is
something weird and perhaps nasty that MS is allowing its own fonts
to employ true small caps but not allowing other fonts to follow
suit. You see the same thing in Character Map in Windows 7, so it is
obviously an OS-level decision. Yet programs such as Quark and
InDesign _can_ access the small caps in these fonts -- so what gives?

At 5/16/2012 01:22 AM, you wrote:
> I agree with all the strictures re. Word, which is now really
> intolerable, but was never--in comparison with Xy--satisfactory.