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Originally Posted by chrisridd
Personally I'd kill for a tool that could correctly replace HarperCollins' awful typographical mess in their Discworld books of:
Code:
<span class="smallCaps">HELLO I'M DEATH</span>
and
Code:
.smallCaps { font-size: small }
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They are doing that because there are ereaders and versions of apps (needed for DRM or Library loans) that don't at all support 'small caps' and it's not semantically small caps anyway. Sometimes the font doesn't have it and I forget if Kindle on iOS or mobi on old Kindles does it.
Death speaks in all upper case / capitals. Unlike some newspaper style guides for AM PM BC AD NATO FM etc it doesn't have to be small caps or transformed sentence case.
Your example of small caps entered in sentence case and transformed in is typically for the start of a paragraph after a break or heading.
I'm sure there are far worse examples of crazy on HarperCollins, The house of Random Penguins, or small publishers like Lume.
Gutenberg has a weird style guide and some of their content uses multiple nested blockquotes simply to change margin. Those can result in a column of broken single words. Standard eBooks goes to an opposite extreme