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- From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: Re: HELP: How to generate BIG&little capital letters
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.155016.2192@informix.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:50:16 GMT
- References: <7OGZrAkDBh107h@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US>
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- In article <7OGZrAkDBh107h@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US> ka6etb@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US
- (KA6ETB Steve Harding) writes:
- > In <ubi.727983427@updike> ubi@updike..sri.com (Ron Ueberschaer) writes:
- > >I'd like to define a character style that uses large capital
- > >letters in place of uppercase, and smaller capital letters
- > >in place of lowercase. The font and capitalization options
- > >don't seem to be able to do this. Is there any way to add
- > >that capability to FrameMaker?
- >
- > Unless someone knows some magic of which I am unaware, I am afraid you
- > are out of luck.
- >
- > What you are describing is actually a typeface. The larger characters are
- > the uppercase; the smaller characters are the lower case. I haven't seen
- > any like since hot lead (I'm dating myself).
- >
- > But then, Rob Weinberg will most likely prove me wrong (as usual).
-
- I don't know if I'll manage to do that today, Steve :>)
-
- However, the poster might check with Adobe - get their font catalog; they just
- might have a true all-uppercase typeface available - as in days of yore. Only such
- a designed typeface really works well visually - when you try to fake it with big &
- small uppercase from the same typeface, you get big & small stroke widths which
- don't match. However, bad typography is the standard today, so what the heck.
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