On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > 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.
Is that also true for XeTeX? (What is an 8-bit character when talking of XeTeX?) As far as I remember converting uppercase into lowercase or vice versa should work out of the box in XeTeX (all the lccodes and uccodes are properly set already). [But I have no idea how that black magic with \Words & \Caps and their zillions of variants works.] > In mkiv > that's less an issues as there completely different solutions are used. But it lacks Indic scripts, so it's not an option for him, at least not yet. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
