Are contextual alternates disabled by default in InDesign CS6?

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Eimantas Paškonis Posts: 91

April 2013 in Type Design Software

I don't remember this being the case in CS4.

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  Kent Lew Posts: 1,000

  April 2013

  No.

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  Eimantas Paškonis Posts: 91

  April 2013 edited April 2013

  I create a new document and only std. ligatures are on (Mountain Lion).

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  Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer Posts: 157

  April 2013

  I suspect you changed your app defaults. You do that by choosing options when no document is open.

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  Nick Shinn Posts: 2,282

  April 2013

  Tracking?

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  Eimantas Paškonis Posts: 91

  April 2013 edited April 2013

  I don't see any preferences for OT (not that I've changed any). So it leaves the only other explanation: usual computer randomness.

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  Mark Simonson Posts: 1,752

  April 2013

  Start InDesign, close all document windows, enable contextual alternates from the OpenType popup submenu. That will change the default setting.

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  Eimantas Paškonis Posts: 91

  April 2013

  Thanks!

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  John Hudson Posts: 3,434

  April 2013

  Note that some use of the Glyph Palette to insert glyphs will disable the contextual alternates feature (and the ligature feature) as you are working. Damned frustrating.

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  Eimantas Paškonis Posts: 91

  April 2013

  That probably is why it got disabled for me.

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  Kent Lew Posts: 1,000

  April 2013

  Note that some use of the Glyph Palette to insert glyphs will disable the contextual alternates feature

  Discussed here: http://typedrawers.com/discussion/256/contextual-alternates-buttonoption-in-illustrator-indesign
  
  But I’ve never heard of that behavior affecting the default preferences and thus new documents.

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