Re: Old-style numbers, from PostScript

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In comp.lang.postscript, jdaw1  <jdawiseman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mac font Calibri has glyphs for old-style numbers. Mac Font Book
> claims that they are glyphs 954 to 963, it not being obvious what
> those numbers mean. Best efforts with glyph names resembling
> /oneoldstyle, …, /threeoldstyle, …, produce the notdef block. :-( 
> 
> Please, how can these non-Unicode glyphs be accessed from PostScript?

I'm not enough of a Postscript expert to help here, but such glyphs have
a bunch of names:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures

    Text figures (also known as non-lining, lowercase, old style,[1]
    ranging, hanging, medieval, billing,[2] or antique[3] figures or
    numerals) are numerals designed with varying heights in a fashion
    that resembles a typical line of running text, hence the name. They
    are contrasted with lining figures (also called titling or modern
    figures), which are the same height as upper-case letters.[4][5]
    Georgia is an example of a popular typeface that employs text
    figures by default. 

I generally think of them as "lower case" numbers, and would hunt using
names like that.

Elijah
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found that wikipedia page using "lower case numbers" as the search

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Old-style numbers, from PostScript jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2020-10-04 13:14 -0700
  Re: Old-style numbers, from PostScript Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2020-10-05 06:26 +0000
    Re: Old-style numbers, from PostScript jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2020-10-05 00:33 -0700
      Re: Old-style numbers, from PostScript luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2020-10-05 08:00 -0700
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    Re: Old-style numbers, from PostScript luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2020-10-05 08:13 -0700
      Re: Old-style numbers, from PostScript jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2020-10-07 11:16 -0700
        Re: Old-style numbers, from PostScript jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2020-10-07 13:51 -0700
          Re: Old-style numbers, from PostScript ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2020-10-09 08:48 +0100
          Re: Old-style numbers, from PostScript Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> - 2020-10-09 09:27 -0700
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