Expert font

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An expert font, also known as an expert set, is a digital font, accompanying another font, that provides additional characters that are not in the accompanied font, such as small caps, old style figures, ligatures, fractions, subscript and superscript figures. It is used for professional typography to achieve the same flexibility as exists for metal type.

The characters in an expert set have better support through 'Apple Macintosh' keyboard. However, an expert set is not accessible using a standard Microsoft Windows keyboard; one needs to use the symbol or character map. In Microsoft Word, for example, one selects the font and then uses the "insert symbol" option to select the characters.^{[citation needed]}