Well, a lively little discussion has been going on while my back was turned.
I really don't want to embed a body font, I feel guilty enough that I even embed decorative fonts.
I tried the fake small caps, and though it looks pretty ok, the span epidemic is really horrid, because there must be a span for every word (most are capitalized, and spaces and punctuation should be left full-size.) There are fifty spans in this small segment.
Code:
<p>“T<span class="smcaps">WENTY</span> Y<span class="smcaps">EARS</span> A<span class="smcaps">FTER</span> . . . H<span class="smcaps">ENRY</span> A<span class="smcaps">DAMS</span> I<span class="smcaps">S</span> N<span class="smcaps">O</span> L<span class="smcaps">ONGER</span> Y<span class="smcaps">OUNG</span>, <span class="smcaps">BUT</span> <span class="smcaps">IN</span> H<span class="smcaps">IS</span> H<span class="smcaps">EART</span> L<span class="smcaps">IES</span> S<span class="smcaps">TILL</span> <span class="smcaps">THE</span> H<span class="smcaps">UNGER</span> <span class="smcaps">FOR</span> E<span class="smcaps">DUCATION</span>. G<span class="smcaps">OING</span> F<span class="smcaps">ORWARD</span>, E<span class="smcaps">VER</span> F<span class="smcaps">ORWARD</span>, H<span class="smcaps">E</span> R<span class="smcaps">EALIZES</span> <span class="smcaps">AS</span> N<span class="smcaps">EVER</span> B<span class="smcaps">EFORE</span> <span class="smcaps">THAT</span> W<span class="smcaps">ITHOUT</span> T<span class="smcaps">HOUGHT</span> <span class="smcaps">IN</span> <span class="smcaps">THE</span> U<span class="smcaps">NIT</span>, T<span class="smcaps">HERE</span> C<span class="smcaps">AN</span> B<span class="smcaps">E</span> <span class="smcaps">NO</span> U<span class="smcaps">NITY</span>. T<span class="smcaps">HOUGHT</span> A<span class="smcaps">LONE</span> I<span class="smcaps">S</span> F<span class="smcaps">ORM</span>. M<span class="smcaps">IND</span> <span class="smcaps">AND</span> U<span class="smcaps">NITY</span> F<span class="smcaps">LOURISH</span> <span class="smcaps">OR</span> P<span class="smcaps">ERISH</span> T<span class="smcaps">OGETHER</span>.”</p>
I tried an embedded decorative smallcaps font, an embedded monospace font using "Title Case" (Camel Caps), and All-caps using the body font (I found another place in the book using all-caps).
At the moment, wishing to lean towards READABILITY rather than PRETTY, also known as "Mimic the Print Book", I am leaning towards Monospace in normal
Sentence Case. (Camel Caps are hard on the eyes in large quantities, I think.)
What do you think?