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Originally Posted by Liudprand
I know they're rarely supported by ereaders or apps - that's what I'm complaining about! In fact, as far as I know they're not supported at all (except when the default figures in a typeface already resemble text figures). I'm not suggesting everyone should be forced to use them - I'm suggesting they should be an option for the person who puts the ebook file together, which could then be overridden by the user on their device.
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Hmmm.... so we would have another menu entry to allow for this? What are the chances that the default font supports them? The chances of a user finding that setting and knowing what it means? That level of user is likely to be quite capable of editing the ebook to make those changes on their own or using a tool such as calibre to embed the required style in the epub.
If the renderer and font have support, you could configure the ebook styles to use text figures if they are supported but again for a vast majority of the users out there a waste of time and effort. I've only seen font-variant-numbers styles used in one epub and I needed to test several fonts before finding one that it worked with since the embedded font did not.