From: Rafael L. <rla...@us...> - 2005-01-04 08:09:57
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* Andrew Roach <aro...@ya...> [2005-01-04 12:25]: > As an aside, on my whole system I have just one "light" font that I know > of, the rest are "normal", "bold". Are there any light fonts with FreeFont ? I do not have any in my system and I cannot tell whether they existed or not. > At 10:32 PM 3/01/2005 +0100, you wrote: > >> Note small caps have reserved spaces in the unicode index (see my first > >> commit to plhershey-unicode.csv) so I think we should drop small caps from > >> the shape category. Eventually (one hopes) the small cap glyphs will be > >> implemented for one or all of the FreeSerif, FreeSans, or FreeMono font > >> families. > > From the pedantic viewpoint, in CSS and I presume Latex, Small Caps was a > style, not a glyph. So it is independent of whether it is mapped out as a > glyph in unicode. I partially share your pedantic viewpoint, but remember that lower-case letters in a small-caps font have different glyphs from those in a normal font. If we are going to use a normal font for obtaining a small-caps one, then some mapping for the lower-case characters is necessary, besides the reduction in size. -- Rafael |