- From: Adam Twardoch (List) <list.adam@twardoch.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:24:46 +0100
- To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
- CC: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
fantasai wrote: > Wouldn't > text-transform: lower-case; > font-variant: small-caps > or > text-transform: lower-case; > font-variant: petite-caps > work? It would have a different effect. First, uppercase Unicode characters would be transformed to lowercase Unicode characters, and then the OpenType "smcp" feature would be applied to lowercase font glyphs. This is not always equal to the effect of applying the OpenType "c2sc" feature to uppercase font glyphs. For example, the small-cap variants of certain uppercase Greek letters may be different than the small-cap variants of their lowercase counterparts. The transformation would also not work for certain Unicode characters that do not have a lowercase variant (e.g. U+1E9E: ẞ). Finally, some fonts include additional transformations in the "c2sc" OpenType feature, for example for punctuation characters. For instance, if the text is set in all small caps, the font could also substitute parantheses or brackets by smaller variants -- but the normally-sized brackets or parantheses would be used if small caps are only applied to lowercase letters. -- Adam Twardoch | Language Typography Unicode Fonts OpenType | twardoch.com | silesian.com | fontlab.net Reporter: "So what will your trip to Ireland look like?" Lech Wałęsa: "I get into a car, then onto a plane, and then the other way around."
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