Hello.

I am new to this mailing list. It's good to know that there are a lot of other people which are using PageStream.

My question is about "Small Caps". When I write a Text like "Test" and select the "k" in the toolpanel I suppose that the "Test" changes to "TEST" with "EST" is a little smaller in size. But this is not. It still stays "Test" but the whole text hight is a little smaller.

I experienced this with the Amiga version 4.1.5.6 and the recent Windows demo version.

May this be a bug or is it my fault?

Thomas

On 20-Jun-03, bluea2002 wrote:

> My question is about "Small Caps". When I write a Text like "Test" and
> select the "k" in the toolpanel I suppose that the "Test" changes to
> "TEST" with "EST" is a little smaller in size. But this is not. It still
> stays "Test" but the whole text hight is a little smaller.

What you were hoping for is "Caps and small caps" -- not an automatic
option in PageStream. To get what you want, you highlight only "est"
and select Small Caps as a style. The exact size of the small caps can be
adjusted via the Small Caps >> button in the Attributes requester.

--Geoff

--
ggass@teleport.com Geoffrey A. Gass Foulecourt Press

Hey there, bluea2002 (<bd10g7+8oes@eGroups.com>)

On 21-Jun-03, you wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I am new to this mailing list. It's good to know that there
> are a lot of other people which are using PageStream.
>
> My question is about "Small Caps". When I write a Text like
> "Test" and select the "k" in the toolpanel I suppose that the
> "Test" changes to "TEST" with "EST" is a little smaller in
> size. But this is not. It still stays "Test" but the whole
> text hight is a little smaller.
>
> I experienced this with the Amiga version 4.1.5.6 and the
> recent Windows demo version.
>
> May this be a bug or is it my fault?

Well, if it's your fault, then it's my fault, too. I hadn't seen
it yet, but it's going to be a bit of a problem next month when
I do a biennial job that uses them.

I'll have to go through the 4 pages and change the lower case
letters that are set as amall caps to caps.

Regards
--
DAVID L. STEVENS - dstevens@cityscape.net - Springfield, IL USA
TEAM AMIGA - SPUG Computer Club - AMIthlon on Compaq Armada E500 laptop - A3000T-040
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Hey there, Geoffrey Gass (<yam9302.1614.17925776@smtp.onemain.com>)

On 21-Jun-03, you wrote:

> On 20-Jun-03, bluea2002 wrote:
>
>> My question is about "Small Caps". When I write a Text like
>> "Test" and select the "k" in the toolpanel I suppose that the
>> "Test" changes to "TEST" with "EST" is a little smaller in
>> size. But this is not. It still stays "Test" but the whole
>> text hight is a little smaller.
>
> What you were hoping for is "Caps and small caps" -- not an
> automatic option in PageStream. To get what you want, you
> highlight only "est" and select Small Caps as a style. The
> exact size of the small caps can be adjusted via the Small
>>> button in the Attributes requester.

What he's talking about is that up until ~now, "small caps"
converted selected text to capital letters smaller than regular
caps. With PageStream Amiga v4.1.5.6, what you get is lower case
letters smaller than regular lower case letters.

>they never had an Empire, so there is no tradition of interaction with
>other cultures.

Regards
--
DAVID L. STEVENS - dstevens@cityscape.net - Springfield, IL USA
TEAM AMIGA - SPUG Computer Club - AMIthlon on Compaq Armada E500 laptop - A3000T-040
#http://cityscape.net/~dstevens/index.htm#

***%%
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yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is
to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding
fathers used in the great struggle for independence.
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On 21/06/03, Geoffrey Gass wrote:
> On 20-Jun-03, bluea2002 wrote:
>
>> My question is about "Small Caps". When I write a Text like "Test"
>> and select the "k" in the toolpanel I suppose that the "Test" changes
>> to "TEST" with "EST" is a little smaller in size. But this is not. It
>> still stays "Test" but the whole text hight is a little smaller.
>
> What you were hoping for is "Caps and small caps" -- not an automatic
> option in PageStream. To get what you want, you highlight only "est"
> and select Small Caps as a style. The exact size of the small caps can
> be adjusted via the Small Caps >> button in the Attributes requester.

To do Small Caps properly really needs a specially designed Small Caps
"weight" of the font. The proportions of the characters need to be
adjusted so they look right.

One universal problem is that DTP programs only know about four weights
for each font family; other weights have to be selected as though they
were a different font.

Regards
--
Don Cox
doncox@enterprise.net