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doubleshuffle · 02-06-2014, 03:33 AM

I'm a bit confused by this discussion. Does the problem only arise when you use some fancy initial together with caps in <small> tags? Because in the last few poetry collections I uploaded here, I faked smallcaps like that, but with just standard initials, and it seems to be working fine; looks nice in ADE and on my Aura HD, and none of the millions of downloaders have complained either.

Am I missing something? The point is - I don't want a graceful fallback for ADE, I want to see something smallcappish on my RMSDK-driven reader. And I don't want to embed a font for smallcaps because I've downloaded too many books that do that and then the reader wants to use ligatures and uses lowercase for them and it looks ugly.

So am I safe using <small> tags for this limited purpose as long as I don't put other spans in the first line?

02-06-2014, 03:33 AM	#36
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,944 Karma: 185432100 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Planet of the Pudding Brains Device: Aura HD (R.I.P. After six years the USB socket died.) tolino shine 3	I'm a bit confused by this discussion. Does the problem only arise when you use some fancy initial together with caps in <small> tags? Because in the last few poetry collections I uploaded here, I faked smallcaps like that, but with just standard initials, and it seems to be working fine; looks nice in ADE and on my Aura HD, and none of the millions of downloaders have complained either. Am I missing something? The point is - I don't want a graceful fallback for ADE, I want to see something smallcappish on my RMSDK-driven reader. And I don't want to embed a font for smallcaps because I've downloaded too many books that do that and then the reader wants to use ligatures and uses lowercase for them and it looks ugly. So am I safe using <small> tags for this limited purpose as long as I don't put other spans in the first line?