Typographical variables, issues with Leading? And can they be chained?

[PepGold]

The "Typographical variables" works fantastic when setting the font size, but I can't use them when trying to adjust the leading values. It is as if the decimal points aren't honoured. Meaning 12,500 ends up being 12500. 

Additional question.

Is there a way to calculate the distance between xheight and capheight? You can't just go 20mm/x-c, I assume it doesn't work because capheight isn't set or known. 

[Alfred]

35 minutes ago, belief-begin-conjoin said:

The "Typographical variables" works fantastic when setting the font size, but I can't use them when trying to adjust the leading values. It is as if the decimal points aren't honoured. Meaning 12,500 ends up being 12500.

Is your decimal separator set to ‘.’ rather than ‘,’? Even if it isn’t, the app may be treating it as though it is.

37 minutes ago, belief-begin-conjoin said:

Is there a way to calculate the distance between xheight and capheight? You can't just go 20mm/x-c, I assume it doesn't work because capheight isn't set or known.

Specifying 20mm/x will set the x-height of the text to 20mm but I can’t see how the c value would be used in your example.

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, belief-begin-conjoin said:

Is there a way to calculate the distance between xheight and capheight? You can't just go 20mm/x-c, I assume it doesn't work because capheight isn't set or known. 

Two fonts can have the same height for C and different heights for their x. 

[PepGold]

47 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Is your decimal separator set to ‘.’ rather than ‘,’? Even if it isn’t, the app may be treating it as though it is.

It doesn't matter if I use . or , as decimal separator.

 

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, belief-begin-conjoin said:

It doesn't matter if I use . or , as decimal separator.

It should not make any difference here but note that you are setting Leading Override, not Leading.

Regardless, I cannot duplicate this problem on my Mac, not with Filler text or regular text. The leading override field accepts fractional pt values when I type them in manually.