Small caps with accents do funny things depending on, it seems, the way you want to get there and the program, but some of it seems to be a problem in the font itself.
in Apple Pages (10.3.5) you can choose to scale the capitals with "Style" and then clicking on the gear menu, then "Capitalization --> Small Capitals," which gives you small caps like the first ones. I'll come back to that kind of SC in a minute, but that's not normally how I would choose to implement SC.
You can go into "Fonts --> gear menu --> Typography," and select "Lower Case --> Small Capitals." Now we're talking. Those are the second ones, and they're identical to the third way, using style set 1.
But, there's a problem: the accented characters are too large. I've put the regular, nonaccented characters next to those with accents for comparison.
With style set 1, you can get regular SC, but if you have accents, you get lower-case letters with accents; that's the third group of the 1st picture and in Scribus 1.5.5 — the 64-bit beta version because nobody's finished a stable version for macOS, and where I'll also be reporting the issue, because it's definitely a Scribus problem, choosing small capitals gets you a ridiculously large difference between the two letters. Pages scales the letters better, in other words, and it's not so bad if you have "ée" next to each other (like in French feminine adjectives that end with that combination) but it's horrible with Scribus, where I've taken the 12 regular small cap "é" and scaled it to 91%. The second photo is the scaled 12 regular letter, the automatically scaled small capital, and then the SC "e" of style set 1. Scaling that second letter produces a less flattering result, IMHO, than the substitution and subsequent scaling.
Hello.
Small caps with accents do funny things depending on, it seems, the way you want to get there and the program, but some of it seems to be a problem in the font itself.
in Apple Pages (10.3.5) you can choose to scale the capitals with "Style" and then clicking on the gear menu, then "Capitalization --> Small Capitals," which gives you small caps like the first ones. I'll come back to that kind of SC in a minute, but that's not normally how I would choose to implement SC.
You can go into "Fonts --> gear menu --> Typography," and select "Lower Case --> Small Capitals." Now we're talking. Those are the second ones, and they're identical to the third way, using style set 1.
But, there's a problem: the accented characters are too large. I've put the regular, nonaccented characters next to those with accents for comparison.
With style set 1, you can get regular SC, but if you have accents, you get lower-case letters with accents; that's the third group of the 1st picture and in Scribus 1.5.5 — the 64-bit beta version because nobody's finished a stable version for macOS, and where I'll also be reporting the issue, because it's definitely a Scribus problem, choosing small capitals gets you a ridiculously large difference between the two letters. Pages scales the letters better, in other words, and it's not so bad if you have "ée" next to each other (like in French feminine adjectives that end with that combination) but it's horrible with Scribus, where I've taken the 12 regular small cap "é" and scaled it to 91%. The second photo is the scaled 12 regular letter, the automatically scaled small capital, and then the SC "e" of style set 1. Scaling that second letter produces a less flattering result, IMHO, than the substitution and subsequent scaling.