On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 25-7-2012 04:33, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
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?
Sure, but one problem with a mkii fake approach is that it is fragile when something else than 8 bit characters shows up in the content stream.
Is that also true for XeTeX? (What is an 8-bit character when talking of XeTeX?) As far as I remember converting uppercase into lowercase or vice versa should work out of the box in XeTeX (all the lccodes and uccodes are properly set already). [But I have no idea how that black magic with \Words & \Caps and their zillions of variants works.]
In mkiv that's less an issues as there completely different solutions are used.
But it lacks Indic scripts, so it's not an option for him, at least not yet. Mojca