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Re: Xywrite antiques -Reply



The only problem is that the reduced-size full caps will have
the lines which make up the individual letters that are thinner
than "true" small caps.

George Scithers of owlswick@xxxxxxxx


On Mon, 14 May 2001 TBaehr@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> More on double-specifying type size: You can do a spiffy
> "fake" small caps by (1) reducing the point size and (2)
> expanding the type width (and typing in all caps, of course). A
> typical XPL routine would reduce the point size of highlighted
> type by a certain percentage and expand the width by a certain
> percentage. A little experimentation is very rewarding. (I've
> also coded this into my little menu/dialog routines.)


> Tim Baehr
>