On 2009-03-11, Finalfin wrote:
> Hello!
> I have searched the archives, but haven't found this question answered.
> I would like to be able to put into my documents some capitalicised text in
> italics. However, I am unable to put both attributes on the same word. If I
> try to italicise a word which is already capitalicised (also known as 'noun'
> or 'small caps')
Actually, "capitalised" is "with a Capital Starting Letter" while
"small-caps" ("Kapitälchen") is "use (special) small capital letters
instead of small letters"
> it doesn't change and stays upright. The same goes for the
> output.
This is a (missing) feature of the used font.
> I don't really care about how LyX shows it on the screen, but I do care for
> how it looks printed. Is there a way to do it?
Some fonts (e.g. ADF Venturis) support italic small-caps. Have a look at
the package venturisadf and its documentation.
http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/venturisadf.html
(italic small-caps are selected with \sishape or \textsi{}, put these in
ERT in LyX).
Using fonts that are not supported by the LyX GUI is simple, if there is
a LaTeX package:
* In Document>Settings>Fonts choose Standard, and
* in the LaTeX-preamble insert \usepackage{venturisadf} (or whatever the
package name is).
Günter
