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Hi,

Some fonts have multiple stylistic alternate sets. An example is Hypatia Sans Pro, which has many of them. For these fonts, the simple checkmark menu item Mellel provides is insufficient — it needs to list the available sets and allow the user to choose which of the sets to apply.

Cheers,
Lyndon

+1 on this. I am working with a group of scholars who want to use the Old Italic block of Unicode. There are a great many glyph variants found in the languages that use this script, and stylistic sets seem to be the best way to handle the issue. The fonts I'm developing will not work in Mellel.

Mellel's OpenType support is generally very good (thank you!). It puzzles me that one significant feature like this has been omitted for so long. Any comments from the Mellel team?

Hope it's ok to resurrect this old thread. Any possibility this might get added to Mellel? As Apple have added full OpenType support to the standard text view, Mellel now feels a bit deprived on this front (of course, it's a million times better in lots of other ways!)

It's always OK to "resurrect" old threads -- much better than starting a new one on the same topic. It's easier to see how many people want a feature if the requests are all in the same place.

Which is sad in this case, because four requests in eight years is not very many for what I agree is a significant feature. I'd really like to see Mellel catch up to TextEdit in this respect!