On 22/06/03, rovinralph@juno.com wrote:

> Small caps work as they should . . . highlight letters to be small
> caps and click on the "k" in the type style options at the bottom of
> the screen or in the Attributes sub menu of the Type pull-down menu
> (as per Geof).
>
> The problem is that they still display as lower case letters - this is
> something I have called to Deron's attention several times.
>
> To get the small caps to display as small caps, after using whichever
> small caps method you prefer, while they are still highlighted, use
> the keyboard short-cut for caps <control> 4 and voila!, the lower case
> letters become small caps!

You missed my point. That just gives a smaller point size of normal
caps, which may be OK for a sans-serif font. For a more sophisticated
font, the characters need to be redrawn to give a true small caps
weight, just as the italic weight is not just a slanted version of the
Roman.

Where a Small Caps version of a font family is present, a DTP program
ought to swap over to it, as it does with Italic or Bold. None do,
AFAIK.

Regards
--
Don Cox
doncox@enterprise.net