[OS X TeX] Italicized/slanted CAPS

[Jung-Tsung Shen]

Alain,

Not sure if this is helpful: I found "slanted caps" in the following
webpage ....

http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/

JT

On 9/20/05, Alain Schremmer <Schremmer.Alain at verizon.net> wrote:
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> >
> > Am 19.09.2005 um 15:07 schrieb Alain Schremmer:
> >
> >> How does one create italicized/slanted CAPS?
> >
> >
> > With trickery!
> 
> I am glad I did not ask a completely trivial question.
> 
> > Honestly, the restriction lies inside fontinst. There are probably
> > good typographic reason, so the fontinst folks did not implement this.
> > Think of the exact italic correction too!
> 
> I did think that there were "probably good typographic reason" but can't
> think of what exact italic correction" is? Some kind of "typographically
> correct" thing?
> 
> > Now, what you could do, is to fool fontinst by giving it slanted or
> > italic versions of a font to make false SmallCaps from:
> >
> >  \installfamily{OT1}{slh}{}
> >   \installfont  {slhrc7t}{slhri8r,newlatin}
> > {ot1c}{OT1}{slh}{m}{sc}{}
> >   \installfont  {slhdc7t}{slhdi8r,newlatin}
> > {ot1c}{OT1}{slh}{b}{sc}{}
> > %
> >  \installfamily {T1}{slh}{}
> >   \installfont  {slhrc8t}{slhri8r,newlatin}             {t1c}
> > {T1}{slh}{m}{sc}{}
> >   \installfont  {slhdc8t}{slhdi8r,newlatin}             {t1c}
> > {T1}{slh}{b}{sc}{}
> > %
> >  \installfamily{TS1}{slh}{}
> >   \installfont  {slhr8c} {slhri8r,textcomp}
> > {ts1}{TS1}{slh}{m}{n}{}
> >   \installfontas{slhr8c}
> > {TS1}{slh}{m}{sc}{}
> 
> No, I am afraid I can't do this. In my complete ignorance, "fool[ing]
> fontinst" sounds extremely dangerous.
> 
> > In these examples the faked SmallCaps are put into the Text Companion
> > or 8c or TS1 encoding, as usual, only the sources from where the
> > regular glyphs are taken has changed to be the italic or the
> > artificially slanted upright font (with o instead of i). I'd recommend
> > to make this a local font variant, i.e. llh. So by switching from slh
> > to llh you switch mainly the SmallCaps while everything else stays the
> > same.
> 
> To show the extent of my ignorance. Let me assume that I have downloaded
> the appropriate stuff or that it already was in the standard i-Installer
> installation.
> Does the above mean that I should paste one of the three in my preamble?
> And then, to get, say, /ITALICIZED/ SMALL CAPS, do I type
> 
> \???{italicized}\textsc{small caps}
> 
> Best regards
> --schremmer
> 
> 
> 
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