Re: "small caps"

From: Norman L. DeForest (af380_at_chebucto.ns.ca)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 19:22:44 -0300

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On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 Gary@chebucto.ns.ca wrote:

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> comp.security.firewalls
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> 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?

I think so.

Where I have seen "small caps" used is in referring to a font where upper
and lower case are the same shape but just different sizes. In the
following image (which I can keep in my directory for a week but no
guarantee after that), the font on the left has normal upper-case and
lower-case while the font on the right is an "all-caps" font with large
caps for upper-case and small caps in place of lower-case.

   http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/temp/SmallCaps.gif

Death in the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett speaks IN ALL CAPITALS
LIKE THIS and it is typeset with large and small caps. See _Mort_ or
_Reaper_Man_.

An HTML equivalent that would work on some browsers might be something
like:

<p>
T<font size="-1">HIS IS IN SMALL CAPS EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST
CHARACTER</font>.
</p>
<p>
Mixed-Case, UPPER-CASE, lower-case, and S<font size="-1">MALL</font>
C<font size="-1">APS</font>.
</p> 

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Relevant Pages

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