Torsten Hämmerle wrote
> Off Topic:Small caps in bold used for headings are quite problematic,
> anyway.
Indeed, it is not very conventional... But I tried different titles and I
was wondering if for film music, it wouldn't look better in small caps:
foxfanfare wrote
> So I guess I'll have to find a new font, or tweak
> every wrong caracters...
Off Topic:
Small caps in bold used for headings are quite problematic, anyway.
If it really is about Star Wars or something similar, I'd rather use a font
like this:
Torsten Hämmerle wrote
> This feature is rather new (doesn't work in 2.18.2 yet).
> If you look a bit further down, in "Fonts explained"
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/fonts.html#fonts-explained;
>
> , you'll find a few examples demonstrating how to use OTF old style
>
foxfanfare wrote
> Hi Torsten, could you please give me an exemple of how this works? I can't
> find an explanation of this in the manual.
This feature is rather new (doesn't work in 2.18.2 yet).
If you look a bit further down, in "Fonts explained"
Torsten Hämmerle wrote
> Meanwhile, it's possible to use OTF font features.\override
> #'(font-features . ("smcp"))instead of the fake \smallCaps command will
> invoke "real" small caps.Unfortunately, the kerning of Century Schoolbook
> L resp. TeXGyre... isn'ttoo good, either, but that's the
Hi foxfanfare,
Here's a possible workaround :
\version "2.19.81"
\header {
title = \markup \fontsize #8 \concat \caps { "Star W" \hspace #-.8 "ars" }
subtitle = \markup \fontsize #8 \concat \caps { "The Force A" \hspace
#-.3 "wakens" }
subsubtitle = \markup \fontsize #8
\concat \caps {
Am 07.05.2018 um 15:05 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle:
Meanwhile, it's possible to use OTF font features.
\override #'(font-features . ("smcp"))
Feature request: The markup command
\fontCaps
should use this feature if no extra font for small caps is available.
Hi,
It's a pitiable fact that these so-called "SmallCaps" are no real SmallCaps
but just faked by using scaled-down capital letters as a replacement.
This has two major drawbacks:
(1) the line thicknesses are not balanced and the "small caps" look to thin
(2) there is no kerning.
The missing
Not "strictly" a Lilypond bug, but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway.
I consider as a "bug" when you use SmallCaps in a markup, you can notice an
ungly gap in the series of some sloped characters (as "WA" "VA"...).
My eyes suggest the space should be reduced cause it looks a bit awkward
