Status of latin OpenType support in Gnome

[Ralph Aichinger <ralph mail pangea at>]

Hello!

I am playing around with various font formats lately (on Gnome
as well as on Windows) and I am wondering if the current
state of OpenType support for european languages is documented
somewhere.

Some programs seem to have some support for .otf flavoured fonts
(e.g. gedit), some don't (AbiWord, OpenOffice).

Is it reaonable to file bugs with programs not able to use 
.otf (or TrueType-flavoured OT) fonts?

Is it planned to support the more "fancy" OT features, 
�a InDesign, like ligatures for latin alphabets, small caps,
oldstyle figures or stuff like linking glyphs in script fonts
like in the new version of zapfino?

http://www.linotype.com/6-2326-6/zapfinoextra.html

Will there be system-wide support in pango for features
like these one day?

TIA
/ralph -- sorry if this stuff belongs elsewhere