[XeTeX] What is the best way to simulate small caps?
Andy Black
andy_black at sil.org
Mon Feb 9 19:32:02 CET 2009
On 2/8/2009 9:46 PM, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 2009-02-08 10:01:43 +1030, Andy Black
> <andy_black at sil.org> said:
>
>
>> When a font family does not have a true small caps font, what is the
>> best way to simulate small caps?
>>
>> Would something like this be OK or is there a better way?
>> \fontspec[Scale=0.65]{Times New Roman}{\MakeUppercase{prog}}
>>
>
> You might want to add some letter spacing, and even perhaps the tiniest
> amount of fake bold, but otherwise yes, this is pretty good.
Thanks, Will, that is helpful.
How do I add some letter spacing or add a bit of bold (I did notice that
the width of characters was less this way)? Is there some place where
this kind of adjustments are documented?
--Andy
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