Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition

Realities of Using OpenType and Expert Sets

The deterrent to using expert sets in everyday work is that they are actually different fonts that contain only the special characters. If you type an address, for instance, you have to switch from your regular font to the expert font for the numbers, then back to the regular font again. To use the ¾-em dash you must change fonts for that one character. Every time you add a swash character you must change fonts. In many expert sets, the small caps font has no matching large caps at all, so every word that contains a regular cap in addition to small caps requires two font changes. To simplify matters you can often use search-and-replace. Or you might want to set up a macro or quick-key for switching. ...