[XeTeX] Small Caps?

[Hans Hagen]

At 13:02 24/04/2004, you wrote:

>Another possibility would be to add some kind of \XeTeXfontinformation 
>extension to XeTeX processor itself, so that a TeX document could explore 
>the available options for a given font. This seems attractive as a route 
>to implementing flexible documents that take advantage of whatever 
>features are available. However, I'm not sure it's really quite as useful 
>as it first seems, because of the open-ended and highly font-specific 
>nature of feature names. There are too many possible ways a font designer 
>might choose to name any particular feature, and I suspect that 
>hand-crafted, font-specific tables of some kind will be the only realistic 
>way to support these things.

it makes sense to have such an info primitive, (comma separated list) 
because when some kind of 'interface' is part of a macro package, some 
checking does not hurt

Hans