Christopher Reilley wrote:
> I am having A LOT of trouble with small caps.
> Why can I not use them in my text boxes?
Hi Christopher,
I'm sorry that you're having trouble. Unfortunately, not every
attribute or option that you can apply to text is available via a button
on the Text Editor dialog. In other words, while the Text Editor GUI is
convenient for a lot of formatting, some things can only be done with
tags.
Small caps is not a standard text "style" in most edit controls, because
it's not a matter of changing the face of the text; rather, it's an
effect that's basically emulated by the typesetter by replacing
lower-case letters with upper-case letters in a smaller point size, much
like "all caps" would be. In other words, you're changing the actual
ASCII code of the character rather than a "style" attached to it.
> Why is there no method to set non-variable text in small caps?
Sorry, but you have to use the <smallcap> tag to get text in small caps
style. The best way to do this is in a rule. This doesn't necessarily
mean that it applies differently to "non-variable text," but you do need
a rule.
That said, I can envision an enhancement to set small caps in the Text
Editor, but I'm not sure it would go very high on the list of priorities
compared to other features which have been requested more frequently.
Also, even if the Text Editor could remember whether a range of text had
the "small caps" style applied to it, it wouldn't actually display the
text this way in the Rich Edit control, because as I mentioned earlier,
it's not an actual text "style."
Of course, finding a "small caps" font would be the best solution.
> Why does the small cap tag not work as a global tag?
I'm not sure what you mean by a "global tag." Note that you can create
a rule that simply does this:
return "<smallcap>";
And insert that before any text you want in that style. However, the
style will only remain in effect until the next paragraph break.
You can work around the paragraph break issue by putting all of the text
from the frame into a Formatted Text resource, and making a rule to
return it like so:
return "<smallcap>" + ReplaceSubstring(
Resource("MyResource").content,
"<tracking", "<smallcap><tracking");
Dan
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