From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Small caps?
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:35:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <500FA1B5.4080408@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH-HCWXd1LexyHopq8v=LSBX0XUe9DCkdYOvD6Rf6cqNpA3QcA@mail.gmail.com>
On 25-7-2012 04:33, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Basically I'm trying to move away from wordprocessors, and while I'm
> not looking for meaningless effects like "walking ants" (from MS Word)
> to be provided by TeX macro packages, faux smallcaps (and oblique and
> bold) is not an unreasonable thing to expect IMO. Not everyone is a
> typographer to produce the appropriate fine-typography glyphs for
> their favourite font to cater to a particular style. Why should the
> system impose "super-duper" typography on users when they are willing
> to settle for less?
Sure, but one problem with a mkii fake approach is that it is fragile
when something else than 8 bit characters shows up in the content
stream. In mkiv that's less an issues as there completely different
solutions are used.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-25 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-24 19:11 Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-24 19:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-07-24 19:29 ` Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-24 21:21 ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-24 21:52 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-07-24 19:34 ` Marco
2012-07-25 2:33 ` Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-25 3:08 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-07-25 4:39 ` Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-25 4:59 ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-07-25 5:06 ` Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-25 7:04 ` Marco
2012-07-25 7:43 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-07-25 13:12 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-07-25 12:34 ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-07-25 7:35 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-07-25 7:41 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-07-25 7:53 ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-25 8:16 ` Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-25 8:22 ` luigi scarso
2012-07-25 8:24 ` Hans Hagen
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