Are there are any open source applications which support liga (standard ligatures). People contact me wanting to use liga with open source apps all I can come up with is LibreOffice. And even with LibreOffice, it's dicey since you can't turn liga off. There's a checkbox but it doesn't toggle the feature.
The gestation was elephantine in duration, InDesign 1.5 being the first major application to support OpenType, in 2001.
InDesign 1.5 had the same OT support as 1.0, as I recall. Just liga (standard ligatures) and onum + pnum (proportional oldstyle figures). The big jump was InDesign 2.0, January 2002, which suddenly supported something like a dozen features.
Photoshop 6 had OT support back before the Spice Girls split up. Maybe around the same time as InDesign. When I was doing my first OT experiments, I was testing in PS6.
Inkscape supports Liga and many other OT features. But you cannot disable anything. I am very sad that Scribus doesn't support OT and that's the main reason why I don't use it.
I think April 23rd 1997 would be the official birthday, as that's when the spec was published. Looks like OpenType can't legally buy a drink (at least here in the US) until 2018.
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The gestation was elephantine in duration, InDesign 1.5 being the first major application to support OpenType, in 2001.
InDesign 1.5 had the same OT support as 1.0, as I recall. Just liga (standard ligatures) and onum + pnum (proportional oldstyle figures). The big jump was InDesign 2.0, January 2002, which suddenly supported something like a dozen features.