On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:31:31AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On 2020-Sep-18, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > This thread from 2015 is the most comprehensive discussion I remember of > > Japanese name ordering, including a suggestion to use small caps: > > > > > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20150613231826.GY133018%40postgresql.org#88d245a5cdd2b32e1e3e80fc07eab6f2 > > > > I have been following this guidance ever since. > > Right. > > About smallcaps, we didn't do it then because there was no way known to > us to use them in our then-current toolchain. But we've changed now to > XML and apparently it is possible to use them -- we could try something > like <emphasis role="caps_lastname"> and define a CSS rule like > > .caps_lastname {font-variant: small-caps;}
Yes, that's what I use for CSS. > (Apparently you also need to set 'emphasis.propagates.style' to 1 in the > stylesheet). This does it for HTML. You also need some FO trick to > cover the PDF (probably something like what a042750646db did to change > catalog_table_entry formatting.) Yeah, we have PDF output to worry about too. It is easy in LaTeX. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
