Typophile

Is "standard" procedure to do small caps with diacritics?

afonseca1974

Hi everyone!
after some search on web and typophile did not found a "anwser" to my question. So please help me with some info regarding small caps.
Is "standard" procedure to do small caps with diacritics? Only A-Z?
Please share some info on this please.

António

paul d hunt

The best practice is to provide small capitals for all lowercase and upper case letters (including diacritical variants) within the font.

Michael Hernan

To get to grips with this I have started to compile a spreadsheet which helps alot when grabbing lists of letters for Opentype code.
I haven't got quite this far yet - but if you had 4 columns, (expressed here in rows!) might help...

[1] lowercase, (list continues with diacritics)
[2] Capitals, (list continues with diacritics)
[3] small caps: lowercase alternates, (list continues with diacritics)
[4] small caps: Capitals alternates, (list continues with diacritics)

Once small caps are done - it might take me a day to sort out diacritics
and when that's done the duplicate 'Capital alternate' set should be simple enough to populate.

Good Luck.

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