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Old style number for Baskerville in InDesign

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
March 18, 2018
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Hi all,

I am able to set oldstyle number for Baskerville font in word processing applications (like Apple Pages) by using the macOS system font panel. However in InDesign I don't have access to that and the Character panel doesn't allow me to do so. How can I use oldstyle number in InDesign?

Thanks.

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Correct answer rob day

See if this works:

--changes Baskerville true type numbers to OSF

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"

activate

set myFont to item 1 of (every font whose name is "Baskerville Regular")

my TextSearch(24, 1700, myFont)

my TextSearch(25, 1701, myFont)

my TextSearch(26, 1702, myFont)

my TextSearch(27, 1703, myFont)

my TextSearch(28, 1704, myFont)

my TextSearch(29, 1705, myFont)

my TextSearch(30, 1706, myFont)

my TextSearch(31, 1707, myFont)

my TextSearch(32, 1708, myFont)

my TextSearch(33, 1709, myFont)

end tell

on TextSearch(f, c, myFont)

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"

set find glyph preferences to nothing

set change glyph preferences to nothing

set applied font of find glyph preferences to myFont

set glyph ID of find glyph preferences to f

set applied font of change glyph preferences to myFont

set glyph ID of change glyph preferences to c

tell active document

change glyph

end tell

end TextSearch

rob day

Community Expert

Glyph F&C is scriptable. If you have a lot of numbers I have an AppleScript that I can post, which will change lining to OSF.

thinh_phamAuthor

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It would be nice if you can share the script. Thank you.

rob day

Correct answer

Community Expert

See if this works:

--changes Baskerville true type numbers to OSF

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"

activate

set myFont to item 1 of (every font whose name is "Baskerville Regular")

my TextSearch(24, 1700, myFont)

my TextSearch(25, 1701, myFont)

my TextSearch(26, 1702, myFont)

my TextSearch(27, 1703, myFont)

my TextSearch(28, 1704, myFont)

my TextSearch(29, 1705, myFont)

my TextSearch(30, 1706, myFont)

my TextSearch(31, 1707, myFont)

my TextSearch(32, 1708, myFont)

my TextSearch(33, 1709, myFont)

end tell

on TextSearch(f, c, myFont)

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"

set find glyph preferences to nothing

set change glyph preferences to nothing

set applied font of find glyph preferences to myFont

set glyph ID of find glyph preferences to f

set applied font of change glyph preferences to myFont

set glyph ID of change glyph preferences to c

tell active document

change glyph

end tell

end TextSearch

rob day

Community Expert

Is your version of Baskerville an OTF font?

The version of Baskerville that gets installed with OSX is a TrueType font so you can't use the OpenType menu to get at old style figures. You can access the figures from the Glyph panel—scroll down: