Re: Lucida small caps

["Mikael P. Sundqvist" <mickep@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:34 AM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 2/15/2020 10:02 PM, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 9:50 PM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl
> > <mailto:j.hagen@xs4all.nl>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2/15/2020 4:34 PM, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote:
> >      > Hi,
> >      >
> >      > One can easily enable small caps when using lucida, see the old
> mail
> >      > https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2018/090997.html .
> >      >
> >      > Could this be added to the type script file?
> >
> >     best use \smallcaps or somethign equivalent
>
> > Ah, so it was the \sc that was the problem. Thanks!
> \sc is more somthing mkii ... when type1 fonts (in an 8 bit universum)
> smallcaps and oldstyle and such meant using a different font
>
> nowadays one can turn them on/off as features and when you need them a
> lot you can even define an extra bodyfont variant from them and switch
> to that one when needed
>
> now, when smallcaps and oldstyle etc became features instead of font
> properties that didn't mean it always became easier because when
> opentype came around there was no 'recipe' or possibility to define what
> is default; for instance some fonts default to oldstyle in the sense
> that these shapes are in the default slots and you need to turn them off
> instead; also one needs to keep in mind that some features are language
> / script dependent and fonts differ in what they do default
>
> summary: see smallcaps as features but always look at what the font
> assumes and does by default; be prepared for inconsistencies (after all
> this is why we want/need control over what context does with a font)
>
> Hans
>
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That is good to know, thank you. While replacing all \sc with \smallcaps in
a document I work on, I realized that in a \setuphead I had

style={\sca},

What is the correct substitute for that?

/Mikael

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