[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by hobnail

Old style numerals have decenders, so the 9 is like a p.

https://cdncms.fonts.net/images/5231...le_Figures.jpg

First line is old style, second line is not.

Thanks for the example image.

Mozilla's CSS pages are usually pretty damn good too, and most of the time they have interactive code where you can enable/disable and see what the differences are:

MDN page for "font-variant-numeric"

Originally Posted by JSWolf

And old style numbers look terrible/awful/wrong/really nasty.

Only thing that bothers me is OCRing the oldstyle 1 (usually looks like a Roman Numeral I).

In many cases, it's hard to tell which one was intended, especially when dealing with citations:

Vol. I

Is that equivalent to "Volume 1"?

Usually I have to go hunting much closer throughout the book to see if they use "Vol. II" (Roman Numerals) or "Vol. 2" (Numbers) or "Vol. 11" (Numbers).