[Framers] Small caps in paragraph numbering

[Lin Sims]

OH! OK, I see what you mean. You're right, small caps doesn't affect
capital letters, only lowercase, and as far as I know that's how it's
always been since the idea was to substitute the lowercase glyphs with
glyphs that resembled the uppercase letters at a lower height and lighter
weight.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Doug <dbailey4117 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem is Small Caps doesn't work at all if the character was
> uppercase to begin with.  IMO it's a design flaw in the Small Caps concept,
> but that's just me.  Small Caps won't work unless the text is lowercase.
> And setting the chapter number to capital letters makes the variable hold
> an uppercase value.
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You're using <$chapnum>? I admit that I haven't been using the special
> > counters in anything, but while it should take its value from the
> numbering
> > properties of the document, set in either the document itself or the
> > bookfile, it's formatting should still be controlled by the Numbering tab
> > for the paragraph tag.
> >
> > In any case, how is what you're doing using a character tag to set the
> font
> > to all caps but 2 points smaller different from using a character tag to
> > set the font to small caps? Maybe I'm missing something, but to me it
> > sounds like we're both applying a character tag on the Numbering tab.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Doug <dbailey4117 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I think the problem is that the autonumber is set by the Chapter Number
> > and
> > > in this case it's set to capital letters (since it's an appendix).  I
> > > suppose I could set the numbering to lowercase letters but that would
> > cause
> > > problems elsewhere.
> > >
> > > The best workaround I've found is to define a character format that
> > changes
> > > the font to uppercase while reducing font size by 2 points, which has
> the
> > > same net effect.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Create a specific character tag that for making text small caps with
> > > > everything else set to As-Is.
> > > >
> > > > Then on the Numbering tab of your paragraph tag, use the Character
> > Format
> > > > drop-down and select your new character format.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Doug <dbailey4117 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to make the following heading using a paragraph format
> > with
> > > > the
> > > > > Appendix A: part set up using paragraph autonumbering:
> > > > >
> > > > > Appendix A: Specifications
> > > > >
> > > > > However, the entire line needs to use Small Caps.  It all works
> great
> > > the
> > > > > way I have it set up, EXCEPT that I can't figure out how to make
> the
> > > > Small
> > > > > Caps attribute apply to the autonumbered letter A.  It continues to
> > > stand
> > > > > tall above the rest of the line.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ideas?
> > > > >
> > > > > Doug
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