Thread: no small caps?
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Old 03-11-2021, 02:51 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe View Post
I'm indeed fairly confident that a missing `font-variant` doesn't trip a fallback codepath in CRe (as opposed to a missing glyph).

Our resident CRe wizard @poire-z will probably chime it at one point to say how feasible something like that would be .

(Or, more generically, if it even makes sense and/or what the actual specs say about the canonical behavior (if there is one) in such an instance ).
IMHO the small caps variant is typographically and visually important enough to require a fallback. Apple, Adobe and Google follow this road...
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