Path: utzoo!utgpu!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite -- I'm sorry, but...
Message-ID: <4630@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 88 18:29:59 GMT
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Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
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In article <46100161@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>>another stupid style thing: FWP lets you do Bold, Italic, like Word, 
>>but they also have Small Caps, where the lower-case letters are
>>capitalized, but smaller than the upper-case letters.  Check out most
>>advertising, annual reports, etc. and you'll realize that this is the
>>single biggest cliche of the desktop publishing fashion year.  And FWP's
>>got it.
> ^^^^^^                                                         ^^^^^^^^^

Since you mentioned it, no package for the Mac (that I'm aware of) does
true small caps, which are actually a distinct font with proportions
and line weights different from normal caps.  Word (etc.) just give you
smaller sizes of normal caps.  Or you can fudge them with a package that
lets you fool with the font's strokes, etc. (e.g., Adobe Illustrator --
I know, not a convenient solution).  However, I'd be very interested in
being corrected, i.e., does anyone know of a DA or something that will
do small caps properly (based on standard fonts, as opposed to adding
a new font.  Or does FWP really do this?).

(BTW, regarding FWP vs. Word vs. ..., I'm quite happy with Word for text,
Cricket Draw or Illustrator for diagrams and Xpress for layout.  I find
that I prefer to mix the 'best' of each function rather than having a
totally integrated package -- isn't that what Macs are for?  I also
have only a meg. of RAM, which I'll complain about later.)

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