Gerry Snyder wrote: > I am just starting to learn Scribus, and am very impressed so far. I > like the program itself, and now that I have started reading the wiki, > think it is pretty well documented. > > The two "funny character" things I am interested in are ligatures and > small capital letters. I see where to insert ligatures, and like the > fact that it is clear which are available in a given font and which are not. > > > Small caps that are in the font, on the other hand, seem to be ignored. > Unless, of course, I am missing something. > > Is there a way, other than writing a script to do the translation, to > use what is in the open-type font? If not, does anyone know of plans to > add that capability? The small-cap glyphs are in a private-use area, but > presumably they are located in a consistent manner, at least from a > given source. > Someone may correct me, but I think smallcaps works two different ways. There is a "global" availability of smallcaps with any font, created by Scribus. A few fonts may also have their own built-in smallcaps, which is handled just like italics, bold, condensed, etc., in other words, its own separate listing in the font list.
So, for example, in Properties palette > Text, you have the top button for the font category, then underneath a subcategory button, which is where the choice for the built-in smallcaps should be, if it's not a completely different font item in the list. The Scribus-manufactured smallcaps comes from the row of small buttons farther down the palette. Greg
