Hi, I always forget how to use bold or italic small caps (I keep mixing addff/setff and smcp/+smcp/smallcaps etc.). In ideal world it could be nice if simply {\sc Normal and \bf Bold Small Caps} or {\bf\sc Bold Small Caps} would work out-of-the-box. The first hit on the wiki was http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bold_small_caps which contained just the MKII example. I added a MKIV example {\setff{smallcaps} Normal and \bf bold Small Caps.} but the problem is that this example only works with <put any font name here> except for the default Latin Modern setup. Would it make sense to fix this for the default LM setup as well? Mojca
Am 23.05.2014 um 17:55 schrieb Mojca Miklavec
Hi,
I always forget how to use bold or italic small caps (I keep mixing addff/setff and smcp/+smcp/smallcaps etc.). In ideal world it could be nice if simply {\sc Normal and \bf Bold Small Caps} or {\bf\sc Bold Small Caps} would work out-of-the-box.
The first hit on the wiki was http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bold_small_caps which contained just the MKII example. I added a MKIV example {\setff{smallcaps} Normal and \bf bold Small Caps.} but the problem is that this example only works with <put any font name here> except for the default Latin Modern setup.
Would it make sense to fix this for the default LM setup as well?
This need to be done by the font designers because Latin Modern uses a separate font for the small capitals and the \setff (better use \feature) has no effect in this case. Wolfgang
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 23.05.2014 um 17:55 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
Would it make sense to fix this for the default LM setup as well?
This need to be done by the font designers because Latin Modern uses a separate font for the small capitals and the \setff (better use \feature) has no effect in this case.
For some reason I thought that they did both (supported all the small cap glyphs as well as released a separate font). But now I remembered that LM doesn't have bold small caps at all. But apart from fixing the font: would creating some kind of a "virtual font" with small cap glyphs taken from the other small cap font(s) (where they exist) be feasible/doable? From what I see there are four small caps fonts: regular and italic for both the roman and typewriter style. No bold and no sans. Mojca
On 5/23/2014 6:46 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 23.05.2014 um 17:55 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
Would it make sense to fix this for the default LM setup as well?
This need to be done by the font designers because Latin Modern uses a separate font for the small capitals and the \setff (better use \feature) has no effect in this case.
For some reason I thought that they did both (supported all the small cap glyphs as well as released a separate font).
But now I remembered that LM doesn't have bold small caps at all.
But apart from fixing the font: would creating some kind of a "virtual font" with small cap glyphs taken from the other small cap font(s) (where they exist) be feasible/doable? From what I see there are four small caps fonts: regular and italic for both the roman and typewriter style. No bold and no sans.
I wonder what the gyre folks would answer if we ask for proper embedding of smallcaps ... 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 5/23/2014 5:55 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hi,
I always forget how to use bold or italic small caps (I keep mixing addff/setff and smcp/+smcp/smallcaps etc.). In ideal world it could be nice if simply {\sc Normal and \bf Bold Small Caps} or {\bf\sc Bold Small Caps} would work out-of-the-box.
The first hit on the wiki was http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bold_small_caps which contained just the MKII example. I added a MKIV example {\setff{smallcaps} Normal and \bf bold Small Caps.} but the problem is that this example only works with <put any font name here> except for the default Latin Modern setup.
Would it make sense to fix this for the default LM setup as well?
I don't know .. I'd rather see lm shipped with the smallcaps in the regular font instead of separate. 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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