Help please: How to get lining numerals into my small caps font.

[Hilmar Schlegel]

Alan Vlach wrote:
> > > of Sabon fonts which I like very much, but the small caps and oldstyle
> > > figures are in the same file, so fontinst generates a font psbrc8t with
> > > non-lining numerals in the numeral slots '060 through '071.  I want to
> > > put _lining_ numerals there.

\installfont{psbcq}{psb8cr,unsetnum,psb8r,latin}{T1}{T1}{Sabon}{}

will do the job as a shortcut. psb8* are the fonts reencoded to the
"raw" encoding of your choice (containing all necessary characters of
the fonts)

A bit of study of the manuals & samples is in place, however.

Hilmar Schlegel

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