[XeTeX] Some thoughts regarding fonts

Chanop Silpa-Anan chanop at syseng.anu.edu.au
Mon Oct 4 12:53:14 CEST 2004


Will,

I will check out your work as soon as I get my powerbook back from a
(free, due to faint white spots) screen replacement.

Regardings small caps and italic small caps, have you had a look at
Philipp Lehman's The font installation guide?

http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf

There is one solution to handle italic and small caps so that we can do
things like this.

This is roman; {\itshape however, this is italic; {\scshape
nevertheless, this is italic small caps.}}



Chers,
Chanop

On a good day of Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:42:46PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote

> This quoted problem above I'm trying to solve in a fairly 
> straightforward manner, starting off with my hoefler.sty package. It 
> defines commands such as \textsw for swash italics and \textscsl (not 
> so uncommon) for italic small caps (and \textscsw for swashed italic 
> small caps, which also come in bold - !). Clearly LaTeX is struggling 
> to an extent to keep up, but I doubt it's necessary to switch between 
> the different founts all that often in a document.
> 
> I wonder if I shouldn't go against tradition and change small caps to a 
> family rather than a shape declaration. It'd make a lot more sense. I 
> reckon I will.

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