Smallcaps automatic?

[TYPPIET]

I want to change a word in CAPITALS into a smallcaps-font. Now I first have to change the the caps into lowercase, then apply the smallcaps-font (an expert-font).
There used to be an extension for Quark doing all this at once for a whole document. Now I have to do it by hand word for word.

Is there anyobe outthere who knows how to?

P.S. I do NOT want to use the converting that Indesign offers, wich makes smalcaps by reducing Caps to 70%!

 

[jimoblak]

What do you mean by your P.S.?

What version of InDesign are you using that Small Caps does not work for you?

You can select your text in question, go to the type menu and select 'change case'.

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[texasjoe]

Just do as jimoblak suggests to change the case, and then, in the character pallette, click on the little circle with a triangle in it to see more character options. In there, you can change your text to small caps.

Good luck!

 

[jmgalvin]

Small caps scaling can be easily changed by going to Preferences/Text and changing the small caps scaling. Mine is set to 60%. Subscript and superscript can also be changed there.

 

[jimoblak]

Sorry - I missed part of the question about the separate small cap font. I was just looking at the change case issue. Just out of curiosity, why do you prefer to use a small cap font instead of using InDesign's small cap style?

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[TYPPIET]

Hello everybody, sorry if I have bean unclear.

With the PS i meant: there is a BIG difference between setting "Smallcaps" in Indesign and using a real smallcaps or "expert font".
Indesign can make small caps by reducing the size of the capitals, yes I know with any % you wish. But that creates not real Smalcaps from the expert font.

Smallcaps are especially designed by the typographic designer and they are a different font. Not all fonts have smallcaps fonts; actually often just some professional fonts that you buy have smalcaps (not the ones that come free with the applications).

So what i want to do is have a script or extension or anything that can do the following:

Find all words with more than 1 capital (e.g. USA UN NATO etc.)
Change case of alle these words into lowercase
Apply a certain textstyle to all this text.

The textstyle will of course set the text in the expert font of smallcaps.

Thanks

 

[jmgalvin]

You might be able to use Find-Change for this.

When you get the f-C window you can select Search Document. Then click More Options.

Click Format for Find and look at all the options. Would think that Basic character formats would meet your needs – not sure.

You could then click Format for Change and set appropriate selections.

With this you can find change anything you want. It’s almost unlimited.

Is that what you were looking for?

 

[jimoblak]

You were not unclear. The reason that I asked about your separate font is that you now have the ability to work in OTF with InDesign. Many Adobe Pro fonts pack small caps in the font file. You can access these from the OpenType settings in the character palette.

This OpenType small cap setting is not the same as InDesign's small cap character setting that you can adjust in preferences.

In regard to your scripting issue, you might check out the InDesign scripting forum for help in this specific issue:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.eea52bc

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[jimoblak]

Follow-up/clarification to my last rambling...

If an OpenType font has small caps included in the character set, clicking on the Small Caps icon in the Control palette or by using the same option in the character palette will utilize the small caps of that OpenType font. If you do not use Adobe Pro OpenType fonts, InDesign will scale the caps according to what you have defined in preferences. Those scaling preferences do not affect the small caps included in OpenType fonts.

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