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Originally Posted by cybmole
so typesetting 101 question:
in small-caps-done-properly, should there be larger letters to initialise proper nouns, or should everything be in small capitals - all the same size ?
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Smallcaps-done-properly would be:
<span class="smallcaps">Brinsop Church was</span> locked now
(with "span.smallcaps" as font-variant:small-caps). The small-caps variant is ideally a different font style, just as italic or bold, with the particularity that uppercase letters and most symbols look exactly the same as the regular style, but lowercase letters look like scaled down versions of the uppercase letters.
The problem is the Adobe renderer simply ignores font-variant.
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would my example have been more robust if coded as font-variant:small-caps; not as capitals within a <small> tag or do less e-readers support the former
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It depends on what you consider "more robust". It's less likely to cause the kind of problem you are seeing, or interfere with search or hyphenation. It's also easier to code and maintain. At the cost of not working in most current devices.
But this is a purely aesthetic styling, there's no semantics at all involved, it's just there to make it "look nice". So, in fact, I would not be worried by the fact that it doesn't work (after all, nothing is broken), I would just code this with font-variant:small-caps and enjoy its beauty when and where it works
