From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Jan 30 2004 - 14:52:09 EST
On 30/01/2004 09:44, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>... The latter would be easier
>to implement, but then would lead to arguments among the
>perfectionists as to why "small capital" should be a secondary
>weight distinction when capital versus small is a tertiary
>weight distinction. And so on and so on...
>
>
>
Thank you, Ken. Well, this perfectionist is arguing why this should be a
PRIMARY weight distinction when capital versus small is tertiary,...
>In any case, these small capitals are very, very unlikely to
>count much in sorting of any real corpus of data, and even if
>they do, the mechanism of tailoring is always available for
>people to tweak the table into exactly the behavior they
>prefer.
>
>--Ken
>
>
... but I agree that it is of no practical significance.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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