Patrick Andries <Patrick dot Andries at xcential dot com> wrote: >> And this grid doesn't even particularly fit the characters. >> Two big rules of Latin typography are that the capital >> letters are all of the same size (visually, at least) > > Is this true for accented capitals or only for "English" letters? > > AÃÃUÃGJQOâ > > Did I yet again read too fast?
Maybe. Think "base letter," not "letter with combining diacritics." Also bear in mind that capital J and Q have no descender in some fonts. "All of the same height" might have been more precise. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
