On 8/1/24 19:49, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Nine years seems like long enough to wait to resurrect this thread.
At 2015-01-20T19:57:25-0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> ...
I recoil from text infected with capital pox, and don't see small caps as
much improvement. They do make sense in all-caps
Nine years seems like long enough to wait to resurrect this thread.
At 2015-01-20T19:57:25-0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> [Ralph Corderoy wrote:]
> > Thought it might be of interest given troff's long-time S\s-2MALL\s0
> > C\s-2APS\s0, especially used in the formatting of Unix. IIRC, Dennis
> >
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Mike Bianchi
I am very interested in your opinion on what is best, given the trade off
between how many days to keep, how many to do each day (6, I think) and how
much space there is on the drive.
I wonder whether it would be practical to gradually thin nbackup coverage
going back in time, to make older
Hi Doug and Eric,
Ralph wrote:
IIRC, Dennis Ritchie said they did it because the CAT gave them
the possibility, but it was regretted for the UNIX/Unix confusion
it caused.
Doug wrote:
I think this is urban legend. Small caps were not used in UNIX
manuals or in the Bell System
d...@cs.dartmouth.edu
Cc: groff@gnu.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Groff] Proper Small Caps.
Doug McIlroy d...@cs.dartmouth.edu:
Thought it might be of interest given troff's
long-time S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0, especially used in the formatting of
Unix
Thanks for the amplification, Meg. That convention was used in
Kernighan's books, and in a few places (but not everywhere) in
the manuals.
alone ;-)
From: Doug McIlroy d...@cs.dartmouth.edu
To: e...@thyrsus.com; dreidellh...@yahoo.com; d...@cs.dartmouth.edu
Cc: groff@gnu.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Groff] Proper Small Caps.
Thanks for the amplification, Meg. That convention was used
Doug McIlroy d...@cs.dartmouth.edu:
Thought it might be of interest given troff's
long-time S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0, especially used in the formatting of
Unix. IIRC, Dennis Ritchie said they did it because the CAT gave them
the possibility, but it was regretted for the UNIX/Unix
Steve Izma si...@golden.net wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:57:25PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
I recoil from text infected with capital pox, and don't see
small caps as much improvement. They do make sense in all-caps
text, but sporadic S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0 or anything like
it is
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:57:25PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
Subject: Re: [Groff] Proper Small Caps.
I recoil from text infected with capital pox, and don't see
small caps as much improvement. They do make sense in all-caps
text, but sporadic S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0 or anything like
When I was working on HP-UX, deriving our content from ATT documents,
acronyms and words consisting of uppercase letters were coded by ATT as
\s-1HP-UX\s+1, etc. It subdued the overbearing appearance of the
uppercase words so they blended better with normal font.
I don't recall ever seeing
Thought it might be of interest given troff's
long-time S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0, especially used in the formatting of
Unix. IIRC, Dennis Ritchie said they did it because the CAT gave them
the possibility, but it was regretted for the UNIX/Unix confusion it
caused.
I think this is urban
Which raises the point, does anyone know of a way to extract
just the small caps from an OpenType font that has them?
Not sure if this is really helpful, but since I have not yet
arrived in the OpenType era I use cfftot1 to convert OpenType
fonts to Type 1 and then simply use different font
Tadziu --
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
Which raises the point, does anyone know of a way to extract
just the small caps from an OpenType font that has them?
Not sure if this is really helpful, but since I have not yet
arrived in the OpenType era I use cfftot1 to convert
I'm fond of smallcaps, but I don't like the faked version,
not even the OpenType smallcaps. Whenever possible, I
always advise getting a designer-cut smallcaps font.
I don't understand. Aren't the small caps of OpenType fonts
that support this feature supposed to be real, designer-cut
small
Tadziu --
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
I'm fond of smallcaps, but I don't like the faked version,
not even the OpenType smallcaps. Whenever possible, I
always advise getting a designer-cut smallcaps font.
I don't understand. Aren't the small caps of OpenType fonts
Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem
complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps
designed by the designer. Thought it might be of interest given troff's
long-time S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0,
Hi,
http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem
complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps
designed by the designer. Thought it might be of interest given troff's
long-time S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0, especially used in the formatting of
Unix.
On 18-Jan-2015 11:15:05 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem
complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps
designed by the designer. Thought it might be of interest given troff's
long-time S\s-2MALL\s0
Rather than shrinking, squash the fake small caps, eg:
S\H'\n[.s]*5/7'MALL\H'0' C\H'\n[.s]*5/7'APS\H'0'
(the 5/7 should approximate to the x-height of the font).
This works better because more of the heavy strokes in a western font
are upright, and this keeps the weight of those.
As
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem
complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps
designed by the designer.
I'm fond of smallcaps, but I don't like the faked version, not even the
OpenType
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