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a final? (maybe) word on all this small caps stuff.
In all the books I've seen it used, in whatever variant, I have yet to see it used intelligently - ever. By which I mean ending it with attention to context, at the end of a sentence, or phrase.
It seems that publishers decide to always small cap the first N words, or the first N centimetres.
So you get small caps intro chunks that consist of sentence + one word, or all-but-one word of a phrase, or even ones bug out half way through someone's name, at the FN/LN boundary.
Maybe it's all down to machine typesetting, surely in ye golden olden days of human typesetting ther'd be a little more sense applied ?
& its not impossible to write regex that ends the small caps if a full stop or comma is detected.
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