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Bruce D'Arcus said this at Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:45:21 -0500:
I wrote:
1) Typescripts are your friends, and best to have separate ones for small-caps, old-style figures, etc. For Minion Pro: you'd have four, and you'd likely only use one in a document anyway.
The limitations of this approach, of course, are that you can't easily get something like a bold small-cap section heading or caption or whatever. You'd have to use the SC typescript there...
And I suspect that's something to be avoided if possible, considering the price of changing fonts and typescripts. A lot of what I typeset is an alphabet soup of acronyms, so I'm much more drawn to an approach with small caps as a context-sensitive font alternative (perpendicular to \bf and \it). I will take your comments on the complexities of OpenType to heart (you've been looking at the problem longer than I have), but I do want to spend some time thinking about a rational approach. Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-