[XeTeX] Problem changing default fonts

Drébon drebon at crans.org
Sun Oct 3 12:01:41 CEST 2010


On 03/10/2010 11:47, Michiel Kamermans wrote:
> Drébon,
>
> in the world of typography it is a well known fact that Helvetica and 
> clones lack small-caps

How, ok, but I was mislead because with pdftex, helvetica clone provided 
by helvet package has small-caps

> However, that means the trick is actually really simple: don't try to 
> find a Helvetica clone with smallcaps, but simply find a different 
> font that has a small-caps set that fits the visual style your 
> publication uses, and then use that font instead of your main font 
> when you need to run text in small-caps.

That is what I call a replacement that supports small-caps.

Thank you,

-- 
D.


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