How to set up fake Small Caps in the new version

[macsailor]

There is a very good description regarding this at page 111-112 in the Mellel Guide. There you will also see figured examples.

Using “fake” small caps
There are some cases where you’ll have to use small caps with OpenType fonts that do not support this option or with a non OpenType font. Although the text will never look as good as when using true small caps and should not be used with documents intended for printing or typesetting, the results Mellel will allow you to achieve with “fake” smallcaps are quite
acceptable.

To use “fake” small caps with Mellel:
1 Create a character style using the font you would like to create “fake” small caps for. The method works best with fonts that offer a large number of faces. Assign one of the style’s variations for small caps and move to that variation.

2 Create a sample text with the same word twice—in lower caps and capital letters. Since small caps are usually the size of lower caps letters, use in this sample characters that do not go under the baseline or above the height of lower caps letters, as in this example:

3 Change the size of the sample text in capital letters to roughly the size of the lower caps letters (or a fraction smaller). Changing the text to about 70 per cent of the original size would normally do the trick:

4 Change the face for the capital letters to a bold face (at any rate, bolder than the one normally used) and save the changes into the character style variation.
The end result would never look the same as true small-caps, but it would look acceptable, as you can see in the following example:

[matthias]

Hi,

the newest update of Mellel claims to support fake small caps, dreams come true! But how?

I just wanted to set up my font variations for small caps, but I do not see how.

Help please,
Maria

Maria,

it is in the Character Appearance palette as well as in the Character Style dialogue under "Case".

matthias