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Using Numerals

Started by Fortes · 10 months ago

I’m short on time, so here’s a quick screenshot and markup sample that illustrates the use of the Typography.NumeralStyle property (I’ve left it as an exercise to the reader to spot the difference between the two):

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4 comments

  • Kevin Daly

    4 years ago

    That's great news about the font licensing if it goes ahead: I've been suffering serious font envy ever since I started reading your blog.

    As for the difference, I'm woefully ignorant of typography, but in the second example it looks as if the numerals are rendered as lower-case characters with acenders and descenders, and in the first example they're um, not.
  • Kevin Daly

    4 years ago

    Sorry, *ascenders (crap keyboard).
  • Adam T

    4 years ago

    I use Windows XP SP-2 where I've installed the Avalon Beta 1 and the corresponding WinFX SDK. I'm testing the XAML samples in XAMLPad but somehow cannot get most of my system-installed fonts to show up in the XAML. works fine but does not (the font is, of course, installed in Windows XP's system folder. The only way I actually got Bickham Script Pro to render *somehow* in Avalon is but of course this is not the idea.

    Is there some additional magic I need to do so the XAMLPad output sees all the fonts installed on my system? Alternatively, is there a way to reference URIs in the FontFamily attribute?

    Adam
  • Adam T

    4 years ago

    I figured it out. It worked when I specified "Bickham Script Pro Regular" instead of "Bickham Script Pro" as FontFamily. It looks that Avalon Beta 1 running in Windows XP SP-2 uses a different set of font names than Avalon running in Longhorn that you presumably use (name id 1 vs. 16). Might be worth looking at.

    Regards,
    Adam

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