Re: Small caps not working

[Colin Wilding]

Thanks for that, Geoff.

It might be a good idea to
(a) note in the documentation that this requires a suitable font (and that
the default fonts might not work?);
(b) use a working example for the graphic in the regression test.

That said, I'm not sure the problem is with the font in my case.  I'm using
XP, and I can get \smallCaps to work within a markup, even in lyrics and
with the default font.  In this snippet, for example, the first line of
lyrics shows small caps but the second does not:

\version "2.8.0"
\score { <<
   \new Voice = va { a'4 b' c'' d'' }
   \new Lyrics {
       \lyricsto va {
           \markup { \smallCaps "One" }
        \markup { \smallCaps "Two" }
        \markup { \smallCaps "Three" }
        \markup { \smallCaps "Four" }
       }
   }
   \new Lyrics {
    \override LyricText  #'font-shape = #'caps
       \lyricsto va {
           One Two Three Four
       }
   }
>>
}

Perhaps I have just got the font-shape instruction wrong?  Either that or
\smallCaps uses a routine that is not dependent on the fonts.

Obviously it's not practical to have a separate markup instruction for every
syllable in the lyrics, though.  As far as I can see the work-around in
11.2.3 suffers from the same problem.

By the way, much of this section of the documentation could be updated to
reflect the fact that there is now a built-in function \smallCaps.

Colin

p.s. Geoff - some of the tips on your website have proved a real boon.  Many
thanks!

On 3/29/06, Geoff Horton <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Could you clarify for me what is happening with small caps, please?
>
> Small caps might not work if the font you're using doesn't come in a
> small-caps version--it doesn't work for me in WinXP, for example.
> There's some code in the manual, at the end of 11.2.3, that fakes it.
>
> Geoff
>