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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: BOLD CAPITALS!
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Date: 19 Nov 90 15:42:53 GMT
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pmisra@cs.wright.edu (Pradeep Misra) writes:

>I would like to generate a macro whose function is equivalent to the font
>CMCSC, i.e., if I type AbCd within a group, then it should print out ABCD
>except that the letters should be in two different sizes:
>   "big captital A small capital B big captital C small capital D"
>and all in CMBX (BOLD) fonts. For example, the uppercase letters from the
>input could be CMBX10 and lowercase letters could be CMBX8.

>I can make it work in a brute force manner by breaking the words into first
>letter and rest of the letters and printing them in different sizes, but I
>am certain there is an "intelligent" way of doing it.

>Do you have any pointers or suggestions??

Here's a pointer: the article by Amy Hendrikson in TUGboat this
year #3 gives a macro for exactly this problem.

And a suggestion: the tests for uppercase in her article can be
done more elegantly by for instance
     \ifnum`#1=\uccode`#1
or, more dirty,
     \ifnum\sfcode`#1=999
both of which give true if a character is an uppercase character.

Victor.