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. In mkiv that's less an issues as there completely different solutions are used. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------