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Originally Posted by Jellby
Not only that, but text-transform, unlike font-variant, is not even in the required CSS subset of ePub 2.0.1. This means that readers can simply ignore it and still call themselves ePub-compliant. Not that it matters in practice, though.
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Text-transform is ignored pretty much everywhere. We never use it, and we get extremely frustrated when we get books in for formatting that have used it (unknown to us). We had an entire book go wonky, with about a zillion acronyms, some in "smallcaps" that were created via "transform" in Word. The fun part? Half the times the acronyms were used, they were smallcap. The other half? Not in smallcaps, in regular cap-case. The client had a "friend" who was a web-guy who told him that it would be EASY to just "search and replace" all the instances in which we hadn't used the smallcaps, and that we were either ignorant or hosing him. I was actually outraged; I mean, did he think we were so stupid we didn't know how to do search and replace?
I tried to explain that it would have to be done by eyeball, as he had used smallcaps X times and regular titlecase all caps Y times, but he thought I was BS'ing him. I refunded a chunk of his dough and sent him off to have his new web-buddy do the digital and print books. Rather humorously, I see that his final books have NO smallcaps in them. I guess the incensed irate buddy who thought we were "hosing him" discovered to his woe that eyeballing thousands of acronyms to determine which is small-caps versus all-caps wasn't as much fun as he thought.
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