Re: "small caps"

Gary
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 17:18:26 -0500

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:43:01 -0400, "Uncle Mortimer" <lost@sea.invalid>
wrote:

>
>"Gabriele Neukam" <Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@t-online.de> wrote in message news:chfeqe$918$01$1@news.t-online.com...
>> On that special day, Kurt, (kurtl@olypen.com) said...
>>
>> > Small Caps? :-)
>>
>> (sigh) non-caps, small letters, dunno the proper term.
>
>Non-capital I would guess, "upper case" and "lower case" are printing (typesetting) terms

Yes, I actually saw those cases once (next to some old printing
equipment). Also, where would "caps" fit in here? Is "small caps" a
printing term too?

>not writing terms
>as "capital letters" is.
>They are either capitalized or not though some would call non-capitalized letters "small
>letters" although they can be made any size you want.
>

Those "small letters" do tend to be smaller. Notice that the capital
letters all use the full height of the line. Most small letters don't. 

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