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
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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
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:AcornCode:<style>
span:first-letter
{
font-size:200%;
color:#8A2BE2;
}
</style>
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.
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, LewQuote:
Originally Posted by sledger
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
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
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.
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. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Artworx
My apologies, it was sledger that was saying...Quote:
Originally Posted by GerryI
Gerry
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.
There are specific fonts that include small caps. These are the fonts you want to be using.
Increasing the font size is not the answer. Small Caps fonts maintain the same character weight for the caps and small caps. Increasing the font size distorts the weight and is unprofessional. See this page http://www.fonts.com/content/learnin...omy/small-caps
The attached is from fonts.com and shows true small caps on the left and computer generated small caps on the right. In my opinion, small caps created by increasing the font size is right up there with using the ' character instead of a proper apostrophe.
@Gerry - I got credit for a post I never made. :)
My bad for suggesting a web design solution in with a graphic one; I usually fine one begets the other.
Gary's "Increasing the font size is not the answer" position is powerful.
If, however, I had an essential font to keep in my design, I might create my heading and alter the font size of my follow-on capitals to a height just above that of that lowercase 'e'. I would then include a little Line Width for the follow-on capitals to balance the weight of the larger initial capital.
This keeps the element of design with Lew and not beholden to font.com or Google fonts.
Acorn
My suggestion was meant to give a workaround if a small caps font was unavailable. :)
@ Acorn: That's a good tip to add a little weight to balance things out.