[XeTeX] Some thoughts regarding fonts

[Adam Lindsay]

Will Robertson said this at Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:42:46 +0930:

>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.

That's equivalent to the solution I reached in ConTeXt. It makes a whole
lot of sense, actually. You then can write other macros that hide small
caps switching behind a layer of abstraction.

adam
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