I’m doing QA and I cannot get OpenType superior (SUPS) or inferior (SUBS) numbers to work with the OpenType menu in Adobe Illustrator. Neither 2015 or 2017 work. Indesign works. I’ve tried this with my own fonts, Myriad, Minion, and Acumin. I can’t even input them from the Glyphs palette; AI uses the basic numbers every time. Fractions and lining numbers work. If I click the superscipt/subscript buttons AI just scales the basic numbers. Are these OpenType features just broken in Illustrator, or do I have to enable them outside of the OpenType menu?
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However, I think it is Minion/Myriad PRO fonts (versus the Std versions) that have some other features and I don't think it will fake them. Of those two, I think Minion Pro is the most complete, feature-wise. Might be wrong. I really never use them.
AD probably has the most complete, working OT Feature support currently available. And if something is found to be amiss, report it. Dave Harris of Serif will roll in a fix as soon as possible, often in the next possible beta release.
I agree that many of the OpenType Panel number features in the latest Illustrator 2017 are broken. No idea when this happened. It affects ordinals, superscript, subscript, and the same formatting when being used to get “Insert Glyph” results (in other words, it can show me a glyph but fails to insert it).
I am not saying that is an exhaustive list of what isn't working, but I didn't see any issues with the other features I tried.