I think I see what he is saying. He has a "small caps" font in the old Type 1 format, with full caps in the uppercase position, and small caps in the lowercase position.
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fi, this illegitimate (i.e., bastard) format is just that. A way around the hard-wired encoding of the old Mac & Windows operating systems. It has nothing to do with proper naming.
I can’t see a difference [between] the uppercase roman and uppercase sc on any of the fonts in my small library.
Because there is none. Caps are caps.
But what if you want to reformat a line of text set in roman to sc?
Do you only select the lowercase letters and reformat, or do you rather select the whole line?
13 Dec 2008 — 1:31pm
Because lowercase small caps are an Opentype feature not supported by Indesign. Since the demise of GX fonts uppercase small caps are all we get.
13 Dec 2008 — 1:34pm
You may need to elaborate on your question.
13 Dec 2008 — 1:55pm
I can't see a difference the uppercase roman and uppercase sc on any of the fonts in my small library.
[but yeah this thread is pretty bad.]
13 Dec 2008 — 2:11pm
I think I see what he is saying. He has a "small caps" font in the old Type 1 format, with full caps in the uppercase position, and small caps in the lowercase position.
* * *
fi, this illegitimate (i.e., bastard) format is just that. A way around the hard-wired encoding of the old Mac & Windows operating systems. It has nothing to do with proper naming.
13 Dec 2008 — 2:18pm
I can’t see a difference [between] the uppercase roman and uppercase sc on any of the fonts in my small library.
Because there is none. Caps are caps.
But what if you want to reformat a line of text set in roman to sc?
Do you only select the lowercase letters and reformat, or do you rather select the whole line?