From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/77558 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Small caps? Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:08:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20120724213437.10149b34@homerow> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343185716 16245 80.91.229.3 (25 Jul 2012 03:08:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:08:36 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 25 05:08:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Strxf-00074Q-Uj for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:08:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD53C1022F; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:08:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id xbJfDpLJ1Tfq; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:08:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F8C1020A; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:08:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201431020A for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:08:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id PeW7W+M53O4s for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:08:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1394101FA for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:08:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.12.86]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q6P38NHC024550 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:08:25 +0200 Original-Received: FROM adi-netbook (bas3-montreal02-1096682554.dsl.bell.ca [65.94.12.58]) By tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 500F6325.B407D.14030 ; Authuser adityam; 24 Jul 2012 23:08:21 EDT In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.12.86; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0NHCr8oEi - f27f99e8a818 - 20120725 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:77558 Archived-At: On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Marco wrote: >> My guess is that DejaVu Sans Condensed has no small caps. That's why >> you get the unexpected result. LibO might fake the small caps, which >> should usually be avoided, since it often leads to typographically >> bad results. If you need caps, select a font which provides them. > > Hi -- is there absolutely no way for obtaining these "fake small caps" > in ConTeXT? The thread > http://www.tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2008-July/010325.html seems to > contain some hints but they are fotr for LaTeX. I don't want to switch > to LaTeX just for this. See http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060818.041218.86ea7e08.en.html > 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? Slightly modified version of the above macro: \def\fakesmallcaps{\let\processword\dofakesmallcapped\processwords} \def\dofakesmallcapped#1{\dostartfakesmallcapped#1\dostopfakesmallcapped} \def\dostartfakesmallcapped#1#2\dostopfakesmallcapped{\cap{#1\cap{#2}}} \starttext \fakesmallcaps{Introduction Again} \stoptext (Stictly speaking, this is not faking small caps rather it is forcing the first letter of each work to be captial) Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________