[Groff] Small Caps

[Ted Harding]

Since I mentioned the small-caps issue in a previous mail,
some of you may be interested in the following macros which
do a primitive implementation of small-capitals.

I think the main point to be careful of is: Don't change the
point size within a smallcaps block (you're unlikely to need to
do so anyway; but if you do it won't work right). If you need
to do that, you'd better do the smallcaps by hand (or maybe make
more than one block of it).

The two macros .smallcaps (to turn it on) and ./smallcaps
(to turn it off) follow, with a small example at the end.

Ted.
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.de smallcaps
.nr .sc.ps (\\n[.s]*75/100)
.nr .cap.PS \\n[.s]
.char a \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]A\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char b \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]B\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char c \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]C\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char d \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]D\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char e \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]E\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char f \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]F\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char g \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]G\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char h \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]H\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char i \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]I\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char j \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]J\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char k \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]K\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char l \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]L\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char m \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]M\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char n \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]N\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char o \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]O\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char p \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]P\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char q \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]Q\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char r \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]R\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char s \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]S\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char t \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]T\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char u \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]U\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char v \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]V\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char w \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]W\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char x \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]X\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char y \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]Y\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
.char z \s[\\n[.sc.ps]]Z\s[\\n[.cap.PS]]
..
.de /smallcaps
.rchar a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
..
.LP
This Line Will Be In Ordinary Capitals And Lowercase Letters
.LP
.smallcaps
This Line Will Be In Small Caps Instead Of
Ordinary Capitals And Lowercase Letters
./smallcaps
.LP
This Line Will Be In Ordinary Capitals And Lowercase Letters


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E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <address@hidden>
Date: 11-Feb-00                                       Time: 10:39:31
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