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It may be that OS X 10.5 will offer expanded support for special OpenType features, but we will have to wait a month or two to see if that is the case. With Minion Pro, my Typography panel has Rare Ligatures, Historical Forms and Ligatures, Small Capitals, Small Caps from Capitals, plus other variations for Number Spacing, Vertical Position, Number Case, and Case Sensitive Layout. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here. When ITC released the OpenType version of the font, the original 33 alternate characters and ligatures, plus extra characters were included. If you have any Adobe apps, or want to download one of their free trials, you could test that. Avant Garde Gothic Ligatures Plus Extra Characters. I think this probably means that the other OpenType features of this font, represented in the glyphs in rows 390 -930, are not available in OS X apps (and are probably only usable in Adobe apps). And you found the only options available were common/rare ligatures. Herb Lubalin devised the logo concept and its companion headline typeface, and then he and Tom Carnase, a partner in Lubalins design firm, worked together to transform the idea into a full-fledged typeface. I gather from this that you have in fact then clicked on Gear and also Typography (as well as Character). ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a geometric sans serif font family based on the logo font used in the Avant Garde magazine. While the Character Palette does show you the glyphs in a font, it's the Typography settings which determine whether some glyphs (particularly those with no Unicode number) can be used or not. Typography only gives me access to common and rare ligatures.
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