From: "Johannes Hüsing" <hannes@ruhrau.de>
Subject: Re: Medium caps
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 22:20:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011027222004.A4470@ruhrau.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231520121.20011027124804@bigfoot.com>; from bourbaki@bigfoot.com on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:48:04PM +0200
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:48:04PM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> Hello,
>
> one more thing to add to the wish list: medium caps. I find often
> (ok, depends on font) small caps to be too small, and normal caps
> to be too big. So what about a medium caps,
Depends on the font. If it offers a medium caps variant, it should be
made available in ConTeXt. However, I have never seen a medium caps
variant in a font. And you are certainly not suggesting to manipulate
the shape of existing fonts?
> and the usual
>
> \setupcapitals[sc=medium]
>
> stuff. And since we are at it: suppose that I want to write
> the 'compact disc' acronym (CD). If sc is set to yes, I write
> \sc{cd}; but if sc is set to no, \sc{cd} gives cd, and not CD,
> which is what I want. I think that \sc, when set to 'no', should
> capitalize its argument.
No: I'd rather see sc as a variant to rm, not to cap.
Groet
Johannes
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-27 10:48 Giuseppe Bilotta
2001-10-27 20:20 ` Johannes Hüsing [this message]
2001-10-28 14:18 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2001-10-29 17:00 ` Marco Kuhlmann
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