Lettrine, \sc, and a font without proper small capitals (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

Lettrine, \sc, and a font without proper small capitals (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

[Gerben Wierda]

When I use the Optima font I do not have real small capitals. It seems 
\sc does not try to emulate them and also the new \lettrine ignores it.

Is there a way I can still have my SC? Maybe faked by using a smaller 
size capitals?

Thanks,

G

Re: Lettrine, \sc, and a font without proper small capitals (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

[Adam Lindsay]

Hi Gerben,

On 18 Mar 2005, at 14:24, Gerben Wierda wrote:

> When I use the Optima font I do not have real small capitals. It seems 
> \sc does not try to emulate them and also the new \lettrine ignores 
> it.

You could emulate them with the \kap command. (and its relatives)
I'm not sure what a blown up lettrine of an artificially shrunk glyph 
will get you, though.

With a Type1 font, I would point you to the texfont --caps=0.8 option, 
but last I checked, pdfTeX didn't handle font scaling/extension. I'd be 
eager to know if this was fixed in the latest revisions to pdftex.

> Is there a way I can still have my SC? Maybe faked by using a smaller 
> size capitals?

Faking, whether within ConTeXt or within your driver, seems to be the 
only option: Small Caps were never designed for Optima, afaik.

adam

RE: Lettrine, \sc, and a font without proper small capitals (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

[Ulrich Dirr]

Adam Lindsay wrote:
> Faking, whether within ConTeXt or within your driver, seems to be the
> only option: Small Caps were never designed for Optima, afaik.

But it's in Optima Nova
http://www.linotype.com/58171/optimanovacdformacandpc-compilation.html?PHPS
ESSID=b120c89ddacf24bf95bb7499629b6e70
 
Best regards,
Ulrich Dirr

Re: Lettrine, \sc, and a font without proper small capitals (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

[Adam Lindsay]

On 18 Mar 2005, at 15:30, Ulrich Dirr wrote:

> Adam Lindsay wrote:
>> Faking, whether within ConTeXt or within your driver, seems to be the
>> only option: Small Caps were never designed for Optima, afaik.
>
> But it's in Optima Nova
> http://www.linotype.com/58171/optimanovacdformacandpc- 
> compilation.html?PHPS
> ESSID=b120c89ddacf24bf95bb7499629b6e70
>
Many thanks. I suspected it was possible, but didn't find it in a quick  
search.

adam

Re: Lettrine, \sc, and a font without proper small capitals (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

[Hans Hagen]

Ulrich Dirr wrote:
> Adam Lindsay wrote:
> 
>>Faking, whether within ConTeXt or within your driver, seems to be the
>>only option: Small Caps were never designed for Optima, afaik.
> 
> 
> But it's in Optima Nova
> http://www.linotype.com/58171/optimanovacdformacandpc-compilation.html?PHPS
> ESSID=b120c89ddacf24bf95bb7499629b6e70

ah interesting ... so there are more variants now; i only have the regular and 
italic (probably a pre-release then since the rest is in optima classic)

Hans


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Re: Lettrine, \sc, and a font without proper small capitals (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

[Gerben Wierda]

On 18 Mar 2005, at 16:30, Ulrich Dirr wrote:

> Adam Lindsay wrote:
>> Faking, whether within ConTeXt or within your driver, seems to be the
>> only option: Small Caps were never designed for Optima, afaik.
>
> But it's in Optima Nova
> http://www.linotype.com/58171/optimanovacdformacandpc- 
> compilation.html?PHPS
> ESSID=b120c89ddacf24bf95bb7499629b6e70

It is very beautiful, but for €1050 (and not this being my  
profession)....

G