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Originally Posted by bobcdy
I see from internet usage, however, that a simulated small cap is a small cap created by the css property 'font-variant: small-caps;' and this small cap will only approximate a true small cap font that is created by embedding.
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That's only simulated if the browser does not know how to use a true smallcaps font, or if it's not available. It would be the same for 'font-style: italics', for instance, if there is no italic variant available, the browser could simulate it by artificially slanting the font (ADE will do this in that case, I believe). Similarly, if there is no true smallcaps font, the browser can simulate it. There are fonts which include true smallcaps variants, and there are even OTF fonts that have them in the same file. However, as far as I know, ADE will neither use nor simulate smallcaps. Even with embedded fonts, I believe you have to use a different family name for the smallcaps font in ADE (i.e., you cannot simply define it as a smallcaps variant of other font, something you
can do with italics or bold).