[DejaVu-fonts] Small caps of D and L in sans serif - options for a workaround

[Schusser, S. <Sch...@fh...>]

Hello,

Currently I am writing my PhD thesis. Unfortunately, the style guidelines of the institute specify Verdana, a sans serif font, for the document. I guess the author of the guidelines had MS Word in mind when he/she decided about the specifications. Since I have chosen to use LaTeX, I have to use some workarounds to meet the specifications. One of them is the use of DejaVu as a substitute of the default document font.

Recently, I worked on finding a solution to implement small caps for denoting stereochemistry (small capital of L and D) in my document. Unfortunately, all attempts fail so far because of my references section. It seems that biber, which I use for creating the bibliography, does not like the workarounds that I tried (adding some lines using "renwecommand" in the preamble of the LaTeX document). As suggested in nearly hundreds of posts in several forums, using a serif font is not an option for the reasons mentioned above. After a few days of searching on google and trying various redefinition of the "\textsc{l}" command, I gave up and decided to look for a new strategy:

Is there a chance to create a font package of DejaVu, which includes small caps for the D and the L that can be addressed in LaTeX, without much effort? I am not an expert in that field but I found two glyphs that exactly look like the small caps of the two letters (Latin letter L small capital: Unicode 029F<http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0250.pdf> ; Latin letter D small capital: Unicode 1D05<http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D00.pdf>) in the DejaVu font package.

Kind regards,
Sebastian