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Old 02-11-2024, 09:24 AM   #97
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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.
Yes that's likely the reason the publisher's decided to go for the lowest common denominator. Personally I don't care what limitations are in Kindle for iOS or mobi (etc), I've got an epub. But I can certainly understand the publisher's desire to do as little as possible.

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Death speaks in all upper case / capitals.
Actually, no. I went back to the Colour (sic) of Magic and it does really look like small-caps. Screenshot hopefully attached.

My Corgi paperback copies are buried under a mound of other stuff so I can't check them readily.
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