From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5966 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Johannes_H=FCsing?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Medium caps Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 22:20:04 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20011027222004.A4470@ruhrau.de> References: <1231520121.20011027124804@bigfoot.com> Reply-To: johannes.huesing@ruhrau.de NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396522 6084 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:08:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <1231520121.20011027124804@bigfoot.com>; from bourbaki@bigfoot.com on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:48:04PM +0200 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5966 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5966 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 -- Johannes Hüsing | Domain: Adresse im Internet. Besteht aus einem hannes@ruhrau.de| technischen Teil (http://www.), einem Namen | (erwin_meier) und einer Endung (zum Beispiel | .de für Deutschland) [J. Albrecht, "Zeit" 12/2001]