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Feature Request: True Small Caps

Open jrmiller82 opened this issue 7 years ago • 4 comments

Small caps would be an awesome edition!

jrmiller82 avatar Feb 19 '17 03:02 jrmiller82

For a monospaced typeface? 🤔 Can you explain what you’d use those for?

frankrolf avatar Feb 19 '17 12:02 frankrolf

Why not? As typeface for code comments, for example ?

krono avatar Feb 19 '17 15:02 krono

Unless someone else would like to volunteer to do the design work, I do not think that I will add small capitals to the fonts.

pauldhunt avatar Feb 20 '17 04:02 pauldhunt

I understand the unwillingness to add them, but here’s a use-case (specifically for c2sc): In the Lisp world, Common Lisp implementations print the (case-insensitive) names of variables in all caps by default in all contexts, and Emacs Lisp in some contexts. I would find it moderately less disturbing if I could see them printed in small caps instead. In general, programming environments which encourage or require the use of all caps (Fortran comes to mind as another example; even Unix has occasional instances like the names of constants in C) could benefit from this.

dpk avatar Feb 06 '22 09:02 dpk