Re: Using NSSmallCapsFontMask?
Re: Using NSSmallCapsFontMask?
- Subject: Re: Using NSSmallCapsFontMask?
- From: Steve Sims <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 15:35:13 -0400
On 6 Apr 2004, at 15:25, Douglas Davidson wrote:
Bold and italic work as you expect because you are using them with
fonts that have bold and italic variants installed on your system--if
you take a look you probably will discover that this is not the case
with all fonts. Most of the fonts on your system probably have bold
and italic variants available, but not small caps variants. If the
font does not have such a variant, Cocoa will not synthesize one for
you. In the case of small caps, you can simulate the effect by
uppercasing and reducing the font size, although that may not be the
precise typographic equivalent of a true small caps font.
Curious...
I could have sworn that I read somewhere that the font manager system
*would* automatically generate bold and italic variants of fonts. I
would have thought that small caps could also be automatically
generated too. Maybe I'm mistaken though - I've read a lot of
documentation about this kind of thing recently and this could be a
feature of another part of the typographical layout system.
Steve
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