Small caps are a subset of a font, it is pretty rare to have small caps worked out beyond the standard 26. This because they did not exist in Unicode as a defined glyph. Unicode is still only has 24 small caps defined. Your best bet is to try the Bold smaller size trick and see if that works.
Shane Brandes On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Jonathan Scholbach <j.scholb...@posteo.de> wrote: > Dear ponders, > > I am using \caps in a \markup which prints the name of the composer. > After having set a couple of pieces today it's the first time the > composer's name contains an umlaut (in this case an ä). And that was > when I found out, that \caps, as well as \smallCaps, "does not support > accented character" (quoted from > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/font) - the ä - is > printed as a lowercase letter. > > The ME is: > > \version "2.19.22" > > \markup{ \caps Bartholomäus } > > How can I solve this problem? I mean, how can I achieve that \caps works > properly with umlauts and uses the uppercase umlaut? > > Your advice is very much appreciated, > > Jonathan > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user