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Old 05-31-2016, 09:59 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by dwig View Post
Which the OP said he was using.

@JSWolf: I would think a simple font declaration in the CSS for a styled SPAN in combination with embedding the smallcaps font would work just fine. It should work much like the tags for bold and italic. It would work for any format/device that supported custom fonts and would gracefully fall back to C/LC when either the format lacked support for embedded fonts or the user disabled the use of embedded fonts in their reader.
MattMC was, if I am not wrong, commenting about Bentleymaniac's suggested solution using text-transform. He, MattMC, was correct when he said it wouldn't be a true smallcap. Even IF you could get that to work on ePUB2, which is still holding the day.

Not to wax poetic and all geezer-like, but there's an elegance to an actual smallcaps font variant that you simply don't get by squishing the full-size characters. This does not mean that we haven't all done it; gods know, I have, when I couldn't get a client to realize that the LookInside shouldn't be the driver for the layout, but...yowch. I don't like squishing.

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