Caps and Small Caps

[Artworx]

How to you type text with caps and small caps?? Is it necessary to type in all caps then increase the size of the first letter in each word manually?? Thanks, Lew

[Acorn]

Lew, there's nothing wrong with doing that.
After you have styled your first letter in size and colour, you could use the Clipboard copy function (Ctrl-C) and then Ctrl-Shift-A for any other highlighted letter you like.
Very easy to apply.

In CSS3, you would use a Page head Placeholder:

<style>
span:first-letter
{
font-size:200%;
color:#8A2BE2;
}
</style>

Acorn

P.S. the problem with this is how Xara renders a text area as a set of SPAN tags so each one with have an initial large letter.

[steve.ledger]

Not a web related question or forum, Acorn

[Artworx]

Not a web related question or forum, Acorn

Sorry, I guess you're telling me I posted on the wrong forum, sorry, I will try another forun. Thanks, Lew

[GerryI]

No, Gary was saying that your question was not obviously web page related and is not in the web design forum so Acorn explaining how to use CSS to do it was a little premature...

Gerry

[Artworx]

After looking at this, I think I'm in the correct palce. My question is related to print graphics, not web. For example when I format type in InDesign I can highlight the type and click on a button that will yield caps and small cap lettere in my headline or sentence. That is what I'm asking. Thanks again, Lew

[angelize]

Yes Lew you are definitely in the right place for this question Getting back to the question at hand you can use styles to work around this. Type out your text in all caps and select the first letter you wish to be a large cap. Set the point size as you wish to create your large cap. With this letter still selected use the Styles drop down to create a new style you can name as you wish some thing like large caps would be fine. Switch to the selector tool and hold ctrl +shift and select all the rest of the the letters you wish to be large caps and keeping them selected switch back to the text tool and use the styles list to apply your new large caps style.

[steve.ledger]

Sorry, I guess you're telling me I posted on the wrong forum, sorry, I will try another forun. Thanks, Lew

Not at all, I'm pointing out to Acorn that he may have mistaken your topic as a web related question and not noticed that this is not a web related forum therefore his CSS suggestion is redundant.

[GerryI]

No, Gary was saying...

My apologies, it was sledger that was saying...

Gerry

[Artworx]

Thanks Frances, tomorrow AM I will do as you suggest and will let you know if I can't get it to work right!! Thanks, Lew.