From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/218 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: kap: real? Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:59:50 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <363971F6.8E5058F1@wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391084 22156 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:38:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Frans Goddijn Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:218 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:218 Frans Goddijn wrote: > > said Hans Hagen to All: > > HH> \kap is for pseudo kaps. > HH> > HH> Use {\sc Frans} for real ones. > > except this would give a strange character instead of the upper caps F > wouldn't it? Well, in a decent small caps font, the uppercase are just the normal uppercase and the lowercase become smaller uppercase. So, if you got a strange character, your font is wrong. > I made a macro saying > > \def\mykap#1{{\sc #1}} > > so I can say \mykap{frans} in true small caps > > ideally I should add a command to the macro ensuring that everything for > \mykap is in lower caps. I know it's somewhere in a manual... \unexpanded\def\mykap#1{{\sc\lowercase{#1}}} Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | mail: pragma@wxs.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------