Re: Support for Bold Small Caps font alternative

["honyk" <j.tosovsky@email.cz>]

On 2013-11-17 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 
> Am 17.11.2013 um 11:04 schrieb honyk <j.tosovsky@email.cz>:
> >
> > in my document I combine both regular and bold small caps.
> > As there is no predefined alternative for bold small caps variant,
> > moreover, combining bold style and small caps has no effect, I've 
> > had to override an unused one:
> >
> > \definefontsynonym[SerifCaps][file:pala.ttf][features=small-caps]
> > \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldSlanted][file:palab.ttf][features=small-
> > caps] % bold caps
> >
> > Now I can switch styles using \sc and \bs.
> >
> > It would be nice to have a dedicated alternative for this. Or am I
> > missing something?
> 
> When you use a opentype font you can enable the small caps feature 
> with the \feature command, there is no need for an additional font 
> synonym.
> 
> \setupbodyfont[pagella]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> Text {\feature[+][f:smallcaps]Text} {\bf Text
> {\feature[+][f:smallcaps]Text}}
> 
> Text \smallcaps{Text} \bold{Text \smallcaps{Text}}
> 
> \stoptext

Thanks for pointing me to this nice feature! This is even more robust. 

All my font definitions are based on this example 
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Palatino_Linotype_under_MKIV

(with the help of ConTeXt Reference Manual where I didn't notice something
like this before).

In the light of this all examples on that page could be switched rather to
'feature' based styling to emphasise the power of this feature :-)

Jan

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