Applying old style to figures results in gibberish text for newly input content

[Eric Stoltz]

I applied old style to figures for body text. Everything looks good. Created new footnote style based on body copy with old style figures. Everything looked good. Entered a new footnote. Resulted in gibberish text as shown. Undid old style selection from new footnote style. Gibberish text remains, even when I past from plain text editor. How do I get readable text back?

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Edited January 16, 2023 by Eric Stoltz

[MikeTO]

Hi Eric, when I open your document, footnote 54 is normal readable text set in Minion Pro Regular with Old Style figures. I'm not seeing any gibberish for this footnote so am I missing a step?

[Eric Stoltz]

Hmm. Maybe I sent a copy before it was saved. Here it is again!

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[MikeTO]

Hi Eric. You'll want to change the style:

• Change Typography > All Alternates from Alternate 1 to Default
• Change Typography > Capitals from Small Caps to Normal

Cheers

[Eric Stoltz]

Okay, I changed capitals to normal, no change. I went to alternates and do not see the setting you reference. 😟

[MikeTO]

3 hours ago, Eric Stoltz said:

Okay, I changed capitals to normal, no change. I went to alternates and do not see the setting you reference. 😟

My apologies, it's not in the style definition but in character attributes applied over top of the paragraph style. Instead of editing the style, just select the text in that footnote and turn off Alter 1 shown here in Typograph as well as Small Caps.

Cheers

[Eric Stoltz]

Got it, thanks!