Re: smallCaps and accented letters

[Shane Brandes]

Good Yann might need it. Boston 1851 came to mind since I made it. I
am sure there are others. Just not a lot compared to the vasty sum of
fonts available.

S.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Mr. Brandes
>
> Bulmer MT has accented small caps as part of the font family.
> http://www.fonts.com/font/adobe/bulmer/complete-family-pack
>
> Mark
>
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> Subject: Re: smallCaps and accented letters
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> Small caps are an interesting typological beast. They are generally caps
> that are shrunk to the x height. But are not simply scaled down if made
> correctly. They are supposed to retain the weight of the regular majuscules.
> In any event that was the case in real world physical type. Now it is
> possible to simply shrink things and not really get the right effect. So
> that aside, computer fonts that support actual smallcaps are not necessarily
> numerous in comparison to the amount of fonts available and fonts that
> support additional oddities are to my experience even less common. So the
> need for such a condition may be small. However it might be possible to
> compose a small cap character with an accent with the proper accent mark by
> using the unicode combination characters for accents although results might
> vary widely in quality of the result. Boston 1851 small caps is part of a
> font family that has less limited array of accented characters, over 350.
> Anyway best of luck.
>
> regards,
> Shane
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Yann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello everybody :)
>>
>> I noticed in a score that I've recently typeset that smallCaps doesn't
>> support accented characters (which is indeed written in the manual).
>>
>> Is there a plan to extend smallCaps to support accented letters in
>> future versions ?
>> For now, is there a workaround ?
>>
>> Yann
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