Re: About smallcaps

[Jeff Kingston]

On Fri, 30 May 2003 17:04:01 +0200, Thomas Baruchel wrote:
  > 
  > Brest, le vendredi 30 mai
  > 
  > Hi, is there a way to redefine the smallcaps internal transformation,
  > in order to have the smallcaps according to the Adobe's Blue Book
  > recommandations:
  > 
  >   width = .9 of current width
  >   height such as x becomes a X with a new height being:
  >     height = height of current x
  >              + 1/3 (height of current X - height of current x)
  > 
  > I don't know what lout basically does, but I have been using
  > Adobe's transformation for some time and I like it. If @S could
  > make the same thing, I'd be very happy.

No there isn't.  There is a way to control the height of the small
caps (see the User's Guide) but nothing more detailed.

I don't think a formula like this one could be reasonably communicated
to Lout as such; it would need to be built-in.  Which could be done if
someone wanted to argue that it was some kind of recognised standard.

Jeff Kingston