At 20:58 13/09/2008 -0400, David Trimboli wrote:
Barbara Duprey wrote:
If you just want the caps to be smaller in those cases, couldn't
you just set up your special character style to use a smaller point
size than your normal text?
Yeccch! That's not small caps! Every dead typographer is rolling
over in his or her grave right about now. :)
Whilst it is true that - in proper typography - small caps are not
simply smaller versions of capital letters, are you sure that you are
right to object here? Capitals and lower case letters appear
separately within computer character sets, but small caps do
not. The only way that you can get proper small caps would be if you
had a small caps variety of your font - along with the regular, bold,
italic, and bold italic that are normally available. But Writer
produces what it calls "Small capitals" (note: not the proper "small
caps") without the aid of such a font: it must use capitals from an
existing font to do this. Surely that means that what you get when
you ask Writer for "Small capitals" (which appeared to interest you)
must be identical to what you get if you simply reduce the size of
capitals (which apparently horrified you)?
Brian Barker
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