I am working with a font whose family has 6 variants: Roman, RomanPi, RomanLi, Italic, ItalicPi and Italic Li. I can go to the typeface selector within the font family (I mean the second font drop down menu on the toolbar), or I can open the separate font window, and manually select Italic, and it will come out fine. But if I simply use the "italics" button on the toolbar, or the command-I shortcut, Pages uses the ItalicLi font, which of course has all the wrong characters (and many undefined). I can fix this by disabling (in FontBook) the ItalicLi -- but I would actually like to use the ligatures when possible, as they are beautiful! Is there a way to request that Pages select the plain italic by default? Or do I have to rename or edit the fonts somehow? I have access to a friend's computer with Glyphs.app installed if some simple editing of headers is required.
Secondly, at what point does Pages replace the characters I have typed with the ligature if one is available? Is it as soon as I type? And if I have a document without the ligatures substituted, can I get Pages to go through and automatically replace with the appropriate ligatures?
Thank you for your expertise!
Secondly, at what point does Pages replace the characters I have typed with the ligature if one is available? Is it as soon as I type? And if I have a document without the ligatures substituted, can I get Pages to go through and automatically replace with the appropriate ligatures?
Thank you for your expertise!