RE: smallCaps and accented letters

[Mark Stephen Mrotek]

Mr. Brandes

Bulmer MT has accented small caps as part of the font family.
http://www.fonts.com/font/adobe/bulmer/complete-family-pack

Mark

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Shane Brandes
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Subject: Re: smallCaps and accented letters

Small caps are an interesting typological beast. They are generally caps
that are shrunk to the x height. But are not simply scaled down if made
correctly. They are supposed to retain the weight of the regular majuscules.
In any event that was the case in real world physical type. Now it is
possible to simply shrink things and not really get the right effect. So
that aside, computer fonts that support actual smallcaps are not necessarily
numerous in comparison to the amount of fonts available and fonts that
support additional oddities are to my experience even less common. So the
need for such a condition may be small. However it might be possible to
compose a small cap character with an accent with the proper accent mark by
using the unicode combination characters for accents although results might
vary widely in quality of the result. Boston 1851 small caps is part of a
font family that has less limited array of accented characters, over 350.
Anyway best of luck.

regards,
Shane

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Yann <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello everybody :)
>
> I noticed in a score that I've recently typeset that smallCaps doesn't 
> support accented characters (which is indeed written in the manual).
>
> Is there a plan to extend smallCaps to support accented letters in 
> future versions ?
> For now, is there a workaround ?
>
> Yann
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