[xep-support] small-caps in Times New Roman

[Michael Sulyaev]

Bob Stayton wrote:
> I would like to use the variant="small-caps" property with the Times New 
> Roman TrueType font that comes with Windows.  It seems the font does 
> have small-cap glyphs, because programs like Word can display 
> small-caps. However, output from XEP does not show small-caps.

Hello Bob,

I believe Word displays small-caps for this font because Word performs 
an automatic transformation of glyphs for capital letters squeezing them 
by height as m/M. The font itself does not contain a separate set of 
outlines for small-caps.
XEP does not perform such squeezing because the quality of the resulting 
glyphs is not acceptable.

> I've tried many variations on the font names to get it to work, but with 
> no luck.  Can RenderX confirm that small-caps is a feature that is 
> supported by XEP?

XEP supports small-caps if you have a font, but does not squeeze glyphs.

XEP draws small-caps if requested in FO (font-variant="small-caps") and 
configured in xep.xml for this font, that is, there is a separate record
    <font variant="small-caps"><font-data ttf="..."/></font>
in the font-family. Note that there may be combinations of 
bold*italic*small-caps, but I've never seen a font having all eight sets 
of outlines.

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Best regards,
Michael Sulyaev
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