On 25-7-2012 04:33, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Basically I'm trying to move away from wordprocessors, and while I'm
not looking for meaningless effects like "walking ants" (from MS Word)
to be provided by TeX macro packages, faux smallcaps (and oblique and
bold) is not an unreasonable thing to expect IMO. Not everyone is a
typographer to produce the appropriate fine-typography glyphs for
their favourite font to cater to a particular style. Why should the
system impose "super-duper" typography on users when they are willing
to settle for less?
Sure, but one problem with a mkii fake approach is that it is fragile
when something else than 8 bit characters shows up in the content
stream. In mkiv that's less an issues as there completely different
solutions are used.
Hans
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