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Old 03-19-2012, 04:17 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
If you like, I can post the samllcaps version of Charis SIL. Works very will on my 650 Charis SIL. Looks quite nice too.
Please, do it. Don't forget to join the @font-face declaration. It makes life easier.

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Originally Posted by frostschutz View Post
60k is already quite a lot for A-Za-z in smallcaps. Most likely your font covers a much wider charset (which kind of makes sense, as your example also has to deal with accents and punctuation). But it's sad indeed if smallcaps is not part of the default functionality...
You are right on both points.

FontSquirrel provided me with the web-font of a regular smallcap of LinuxLibertine. I use now the ttf version.

It's true that I selected probably conservatively too many options (accents bien sūr and others) but I'm OK with the end result. I have other smallcaps about 30k each.

Smallcaps are not widespread.

if you publish using a world-widespread font, it misses smallcaps
if you embed everything, readers may not accept your book

I am trying now a small path in the middle, just embedding smallcaps. I'll see if it's working.

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