Re: [Inkscape-devel] fake small caps

When a font doesn't have real small caps, they are the normal capitals scaled to 70% of the original hight or the such. Now this way they are too thin and don't look all that good. I wonder what the result would be like, if you trace a letter with an outline that varies it's thickness with the slope of the outline. Ranging from 0 thicknes for horizontal to 100% thickness (how many pts that are is adjustable) for vertical lines. I have no clue, it that works, but I think it might look quite OK.

I don't think it's Inkscape business to fake small caps. A specialized font editor such as FontForge will make small caps for you out of a font, with proportional widening of strokes and other nice things. Then you can use the new font everywhere.