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[Pete Myers <peterdanielmyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi robert!  Welcome!

If you check the code for the tetragramaton, you'll see the answer I had to
code for small caps.  Basically it's a "feature" (/"limitation" depending on
your perspective) of latex that it will only use features that fonts are
designed for.  Times new roman does come with a small caps version, but only
if you buy a licence for the fuller version.

Word and open office "cheat" small caps by using font sizes and regular
caps.  That's what the lord macro does too.

Feel free to copy the code from it and just replace the text.

Pete

On 22 Apr 2010 12:00, "David Purton" <dcpurton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Robert and Welcome!


On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:37:19PM -0400, Robert Fischer wrote:
> Hey there. David just signed me ...
No probs with that one, so long as you leave a4 as the default :) I'd
assume that geometry picks up what is already set


> 2) I'd like to create an inline form of the "hebrew" environment, which
I've
> been calling \heb....
I think the \he{} and \gr{} macros will do what you want.

Try this:

   In beginning \he{בראשית} \gr{ἐν ἀρχη}. And back to English.


> 3) I'd like to move the tetragrammaton command (as \tetra) into
sbllang.sty.
> As an OT guy who ...
No probs. Perhaps we could add an \ifheb check so that it would just
work whether it was placed in a hebrew environment or not.


> 4) Since the Hebrew and Greek language stuff requires the SBL Hebrew and
SBL
> Greek fonts to be ...
No probs. BTW I mostly use LaTeX, not XeTeX unless I have to. I'd like
to keep as much as possible working with both, but perhaps don't worry
on this occasion. If I'm feeling keen I'll make it LaTeX obey the
options too (but don't let me stop you from doing so)


> 5) If someone can show me how to get smallcaps to work, I'd like to bring
in
> the smallcaps "Lor...
Groan. This is less easy than it seems. With Times New Roman, you are
reduced to using fake small caps. So far we have not succeeded in
finding a way whether the selected font has a small caps variant or not.

Because I use LaTeX and the Computer Modern fonts, I just use \textsc{}.
In an ideal world, you would want to override this macro. Check if XeTeX
is being used, check if the current font has a small caps variant, and
use it if it does, otherwise fake them. I haven't tried yet, but maybe
one of the gurus on comp.text.tex or the XeTeX mailing list would know
how to tell if the current font has a small caps variant.


> 5b) If we get the Bible abbreviations to work, I'd probably create another
> package to do the Bi...
Agreed.


> 6) I'd like to create a 'dukedivessay' class for Duke Divinity School
(where
> I attend). Since ...
Go for it.


> 7) More than anything else, I'd like to start generating some
documentation
> for all this stuff....
Oooo. Yes please :).

the sample files in the test directory are useful, but no where near
enough. There is a little bit more info at
http://marshwiggle.net/ridleylatex/


David

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For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to
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                                2 Chronicles 16:9a

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