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Posted by J.O. Aho on 02/13/07 11:17
Ben Gun wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:09:42 +0200, "Jukka K. Korpela"
> <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
>
> Thank you for your replies.
>
>> Scripsit Beauregard T. Shagnasty:
>>
>>> He said "small caps", not "all caps'. <g>
>> The Subject line _only_ says "small caps", but that's apparently misleading.
>> It seems to me that the OP has text like "THE BENGAL TIGER" and he wants it
>> to be displayed as "The Bengal Tiger" using small-caps style (i.e. with
>> lowercase letters like "a" rendered using shapes similar to the
>> corresponding uppercase letter though smaller).
> Yes, that is my problem. The text is already in all-caps, but I want
> small-caps. Here is why. The text has been scanned in from a book
> where it is small-caps, and the OCR software makes it all-caps. Now, I
> would like to display it similar to what it is in the book, i.e.
> small-caps. Looks like I can't even convey my problem.
>
> For me it is not so much about all-caps or small-caps, it is more a
> question of how to treat the first letter of a word different from the
> rest, like with the first-letter pseudothingy, but that only works on
> block-level.
Can't you just process the text once more, perl should give you the tool
manipulate the raw texts to a more normal format before you inject HTML into it.
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//Aho
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