OH! OK, I see what you mean. You're right, small caps doesn't affect capital letters, only lowercase, and as far as I know that's how it's always been since the idea was to substitute the lowercase glyphs with glyphs that resembled the uppercase letters at a lower height and lighter weight.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is Small Caps doesn't work at all if the character was > uppercase to begin with. IMO it's a design flaw in the Small Caps concept, > but that's just me. Small Caps won't work unless the text is lowercase. > And setting the chapter number to capital letters makes the variable hold > an uppercase value. > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Lin Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You're using <$chapnum>? I admit that I haven't been using the special > > counters in anything, but while it should take its value from the > numbering > > properties of the document, set in either the document itself or the > > bookfile, it's formatting should still be controlled by the Numbering tab > > for the paragraph tag. > > > > In any case, how is what you're doing using a character tag to set the > font > > to all caps but 2 points smaller different from using a character tag to > > set the font to small caps? Maybe I'm missing something, but to me it > > sounds like we're both applying a character tag on the Numbering tab. > > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I think the problem is that the autonumber is set by the Chapter Number > > and > > > in this case it's set to capital letters (since it's an appendix). I > > > suppose I could set the numbering to lowercase letters but that would > > cause > > > problems elsewhere. > > > > > > The best workaround I've found is to define a character format that > > changes > > > the font to uppercase while reducing font size by 2 points, which has > the > > > same net effect. > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Lin Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Create a specific character tag that for making text small caps with > > > > everything else set to As-Is. > > > > > > > > Then on the Numbering tab of your paragraph tag, use the Character > > Format > > > > drop-down and select your new character format. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to make the following heading using a paragraph format > > with > > > > the > > > > > Appendix A: part set up using paragraph autonumbering: > > > > > > > > > > Appendix A: Specifications > > > > > > > > > > However, the entire line needs to use Small Caps. It all works > great > > > the > > > > > way I have it set up, EXCEPT that I can't figure out how to make > the > > > > Small > > > > > Caps attribute apply to the autonumbered letter A. It continues to > > > stand > > > > > tall above the rest of the line. > > > > > > > > > > Ideas? > > > > > > > > > > Doug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > > > > > > > > > Send messages to [email protected] > > > > > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > > > > > Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/ > > > > > framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > > > > > Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/ > > > > > listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > > > > > Send administrative questions to [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Lin Sims > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > > > > > > > Send messages to [email protected] > > > > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > > > > Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/ > > > > framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > > > > Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/ > > > > listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > > > > Send administrative questions to [email protected] > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > > > > > Send messages to [email protected] > > > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > > > Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/ > > > framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > > > Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/ > > > listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > > > Send administrative questions to [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Lin Sims > > _______________________________________________ > > > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > > > Send messages to [email protected] > > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > > Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/ > > framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > > Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/ > > listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > > Send administrative questions to [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to [email protected] > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/ > framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/ > listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to [email protected] > -- Lin Sims _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
