Features
Significant features of AAT currently include:
- Several degrees of ligature control
- Keshideh justification and joiners
- Cross-stream kerning (required for Nasta'liq Urdu, for example)
- Indic vowel rearrangement
- Independently controllable substitution of:
- Old style figures
- Small caps and drop caps
- Swash variants
- Alternative glyphs:
- Individual alternatives on a per-glyph basis
- Wholesale alternatives, such as engraved text
- Anything else the font designer wants to add
- Glyph variation axes
AAT font features are supported on Mac OS 8.5 and above, including OS X and also on several open-source operating systems such as Linux via IBM's ICU library.
Read more about this topic: Apple Advanced Typography
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