> 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.