On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:13:16 GMT Steve Litt wrote: > URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38713 > I'm pretty sure you can do this: Create an environment that makes its > paragraph italic. Then create a character style that puts its > characters in smallcaps. Apply the environemnt to the paragraph, and > apply the character styles to the character styles. By using this > styles based method, you can repeat it over and over again, and if > you ever want to change the appearance of either, you can change it > globally by changing your layout file. SteveT Steve Litt Author: > Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware > http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Steve, Thanks for the effort! Not really sure if we are talking about the same issue (might be my incomprehensibility). AFAIK, "small caps italic" (i.e. sc-i) need to physically exist on your tex distro. Previous discussions showed there is an conspicuous lack of this font type as open type. We only heard of commercial examples such as "Scala" and the likes of Adobe. However, some further discussion with someone who typesets text in the Polish language and a tip from the French LyX list revealed that this deficiency does not appear prominent outside the world of typesetting English texts. For example, interesting developments can be reported in "The TeX Gyre (TG) Collection of Fonts" which `aims at remaking and extending of the freely available fonts distributed with Ghostscript. The important aspect of the project is providing not only the support for TeX but also the cross-platform OpenType format of the fonts.' www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/ I'm interested what are other peoples experience generally in terms of Open Type and more specifically with small caps italic. What's happening Font wise on the German side for example? Cheers, Sam
