Re: Small caps?

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 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.

Is that also true for XeTeX? (What is an 8-bit character when talking of XeTeX?)

As far as I remember converting uppercase into lowercase or vice versa
should work out of the box in XeTeX (all the lccodes and uccodes are
properly set already).

[But I have no idea how that black magic with \Words & \Caps and their
zillions of variants works.]

> In mkiv
> that's less an issues as there completely different solutions are used.

But it lacks Indic scripts, so it's not an option for him, at least not yet.

Mojca
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