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The Liberation(tm) Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New.
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Enhancement: offer support for small caps #23

Open callegar opened 5 years ago

callegar commented 5 years ago

Would be great to see support for small caps in the Liberation fonts.

Note that currently there does not seem to be a free font that is visually/metrically compatible with Times New Roman in Small Caps. Fonts that offer Small Caps (GNU Freefont, TeX Gyre Termes, Linux Libertine and Libertinus) all have a too small height for the small cap wrt Times. In fact they set the small caps height as the x-height which is common but not what actually happens in Times.

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 5 years ago

The Polish TeX User Group (GUST) published a guide to implement small caps glyphs, this is available in the following presentation, page 37-41: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/afp05.pdf

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 4 years ago

On Windows 10 small caps are already done in both Arial and TNR fonts, if you get a Windows 10 VM from Microsoft website and run it, you will get them. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 3 years ago

Alternatively, if you just want to get newer TNR and Arial to explore, you can just copy from other PC running Windows 10, or get an ISO image from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO Then you extract install.wim from there after your download task finished. Next you can open this wim file with file archive software (such as 7-Zip) to find them out.