Re: smallcaps

["dr. Hans van der Meer" <havdmeer@ziggo.nl>]

> On 29 Jun 2016, at 10:05, dr. Hans van der Meer <havdmeer@ziggo.nl> wrote:
> 
> I do not understand the behaviour of the \sc macro. I thought smallcaps would turn out to be smaller than capitals. But I see no difference between them except a subtle difference in letterspacing. Am I doing something wrong here?
> 
> Hans van der Meer
> 

The above issue being solved, I guess there is something else in my setup not being as it should be.
Because the code:

\starttext
\setupbodyfont[lucidaot]
{\sc abc}
\stoptext

Does give me abc in smallcaps, but placing the \setupbodyfont before the \starttext surprisingly does not.

\setupbodyfont[lucidaot]
\starttext
{\sc abc}
\stoptext

Changing the lucidaot call for cambria or lmodern gives the expected coorect behaviour.
So I guess there is something amiss with how I did setup the lucida font in my system.
I bought the lucida opentype font and installed my TeX trees as follows. The split between the ConTeXt directory and the one for my local files facilitates downloading new beta versions.

~home\TeX\texmf\
  fonts
    opentype
      bh
        lucidaot
          LucidaBlackletterOT.otf .. LucidaSansTypewriterOT.otf
  tex
    context
      user (my own modules)

~home\Applications\TeX-programs\
    context
      tex
        link to the above texmf
        further as downloaded from the beta

Strange thing furthermore is that changing the name of the lucidaot-directory in the texmf-tree does not seem to make any difference, not in any case when I execute "mtxrun --script font --reload --force" and afterwards "mtxrun --script context --make".

So I guess there are some things I did not right. Can that be spotted from the information given here?

Hans van der Meer


 

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