Hi Gerben, On 18 Mar 2005, at 14:24, Gerben Wierda wrote:
When I use the Optima font I do not have real small capitals. It seems \sc does not try to emulate them and also the new \lettrine ignores it.
You could emulate them with the \kap command. (and its relatives) I'm not sure what a blown up lettrine of an artificially shrunk glyph will get you, though. With a Type1 font, I would point you to the texfont --caps=0.8 option, but last I checked, pdfTeX didn't handle font scaling/extension. I'd be eager to know if this was fixed in the latest revisions to pdftex.
Is there a way I can still have my SC? Maybe faked by using a smaller size capitals?
Faking, whether within ConTeXt or within your driver, seems to be the only option: Small Caps were never designed for Optima, afaik. adam