Re: [Groff] Proper Small Caps.

[Robert Thorsby]

On 8/1/24 19:49, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Nine years seems like long enough to wait to resurrect this thread.
>
> At 2015-01-20T19:57:25-0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:

> ...

> > I recoil from text infected with capital pox, and don't see small caps as
> > much improvement. They do make sense in all-caps text, but sporadic
> > S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0 or anything like it is not a cure for the pox.

I agree with Branden, especially as there are a number of good quality 
type1 font families that have a "proper" small caps font.

I think that a long time ago groff moved on from being purely a method 
of typesetting technical documents. Why should we munge small caps from 
standard fonts (and earn Doug's ire) when there are genuine small caps 
that we should be using when we need them.

Of course, Gaius Mulley's superb dropcaps macro would need revision. :-)

Robert Thorsby