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Subject:Re: Does HTML recognize small caps? From:Sanford Carr <spcarr -at- NEBULA -dot- ISPACE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:55:23 -400
On 26 Nov 96 at 15:58, Jeremy M Lerman wrote:
> I've been informed that when a document has been converted to an
> HTML file, text that was originally defined as small caps is
> automatically converted to lowercase. Horrors!
You can do small caps in HTML by reducing the font size. This is
somewhat of a kludge, and will not work in all browsers.
<FONT SIZE=-1>SMALL CAPS</FONT>
I don't know how any of the myriad conversion programs can be made to
handle this automagically. Perhaps with a style?
