Lettrine, \sc, and a font without proper small capitals (Modified by Gerben Wierda)
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. Is there a way I can still have my SC? Maybe faked by using a smaller size capitals? Thanks, G
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
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Faking, whether within ConTeXt or within your driver, seems to be the only option: Small Caps were never designed for Optima, afaik.
But it's in Optima Nova http://www.linotype.com/58171/optimanovacdformacandpc-compilation.html?PHPS ESSID=b120c89ddacf24bf95bb7499629b6e70 Best regards, Ulrich Dirr
On 18 Mar 2005, at 15:30, Ulrich Dirr wrote:
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Faking, whether within ConTeXt or within your driver, seems to be the only option: Small Caps were never designed for Optima, afaik.
But it's in Optima Nova http://www.linotype.com/58171/optimanovacdformacandpc- compilation.html?PHPS ESSID=b120c89ddacf24bf95bb7499629b6e70
Many thanks. I suspected it was possible, but didn't find it in a quick search. adam
Ulrich Dirr wrote:
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Faking, whether within ConTeXt or within your driver, seems to be the only option: Small Caps were never designed for Optima, afaik.
But it's in Optima Nova http://www.linotype.com/58171/optimanovacdformacandpc-compilation.html?PHPS ESSID=b120c89ddacf24bf95bb7499629b6e70
ah interesting ... so there are more variants now; i only have the regular and italic (probably a pre-release then since the rest is in optima classic) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 18 Mar 2005, at 16:30, Ulrich Dirr wrote:
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Faking, whether within ConTeXt or within your driver, seems to be the only option: Small Caps were never designed for Optima, afaik.
But it's in Optima Nova http://www.linotype.com/58171/optimanovacdformacandpc- compilation.html?PHPS ESSID=b120c89ddacf24bf95bb7499629b6e70
It is very beautiful, but for €1050 (and not this being my profession).... G
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