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Subject:Re: Does HTML recognize small caps? From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 29 Nov 1996 09:15:51 -0800
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:58:16 +0200, 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!
>Can anybody out there suggest any tips or tricks to bypass the problem?
It's got nothing to do with HTML and whether "it" recognizes "small
caps" -- HTML is merely a standard (or was until Netscape got ahold of
it) for marking up documents for display in a certain type of viewer.
How text styles are handled in a document-to-HTML conversion depends
entirely on the conversion tool or filter being used.
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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