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Re: imbrications and ---


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: imbrications and ---
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:36:55 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

 >     smallcaps is what \textsc provides under LaTeX.
 > That is what small caps are, yes.  You can always get them with @sc, not
 > that that will make you happy.

 >> I find smallcaps (in text) very intrusive.
 >     Actually, it's because IMHO they are much less intrusive that I prefer
 >     them :)

 > I 100% agree that full-size capitals, as in your example, are too
 > intrusive.  No argument there.

 > But smallcaps are not the only alternative.  There is another tradition
 > of typesetting allcaps words one point size smaller.  This is my
 > preference.  I find smallcaps, as I said, *too* small for acronyms that
 > might occur many times in running text.  Full-size caps are too big.
 > One-point-size-smaller caps are, IMHO, just right.  Opinions differ.

Sorry, I had not understood there were alternatives.  I don't know
these.  Do you have samples?  Would that implementation make it easier
to cumulate styles?  In which case, I'm for it :)




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