[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 16771] New: Add OpenType Small Capital Letters

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16771

           Summary: Add OpenType Small Capital Letters
           Product: DejaVu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: General
        AssignedTo: dejavu-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: sven.siegmund at gmail.com


Hello, 

I know that there may be issues with higher priorities for the DejaVu fonts,
but please consider adding small capital letters (small caps). 

Small caps are typographically useful especially for linguists. They have a
typographical tradition of writing particular meanings in interlinearized texts
in small capital letters.

For now it would suffice to have just the plain face in small caps, later one
could add italic small caps, bold small caps, and bold italic small caps. This
would tremendously improve the typographical value of DejaVu fonts since only
very few OpenType fonts have all these small caps. DejaVu would then be an
option also for typesetters who don't necessarily need DejaVu's marvellous
character inventory.


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