Small Caps and Sans Serif

[Stefan Parkvall]

On my latex installation (the new latex version) there are no small caps
in the sans serif font. If i write {\sffamily \textsc{Test}} in my latex
file i get the message

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/sc' in size <10> not available
(Font) Font shape `OT1/cmr/m/sc' tried instead on input line 132.

indicating that the requested font does not exist. Where can I find the
requested font or is it considered bad typography to use this kind of
font?

Stefan

[Joerg Knappen]

In article <3715j4$1...@news.kth.se>, park...@elixir.lne.kth.se (Stefan Parkvall) writes:
:
:On my latex installation (the new latex version) there are no small caps

In fact, I have never ever seen sans serif small caps, though I have seen
italic and bold face small caps. It is a safe assumption, that something like
sans small caps is a typographical no-op. I have not experimented with it (it
should be rather easy to create a sans csc font from computer modern using
METAFONT), but I'm afraid, it would look rather ugly. The reason behind is,
that sans serif calls for rather dense setting, while small caps call for
some letterspacing.

--J"org Knappen.

:
:Stefan

[Young U. Ryu]

I believe CM Sans Serif Small Cap fonts are not available,
or at least not distributed with TeX/Metafont ...

>Stefan

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[Peter Flynn]

In article <3715j4$1...@news.kth.se> park...@elixir.lne.kth.se (Stefan Parkvall) writes:

On my latex installation (the new latex version) there are no small caps
in the sans serif font. If i write {\sffamily \textsc{Test}} in my latex
file i get the message

This is correct. Sans-serif fonts don't usually have small caps, they're
a thing you get with _serif_ fonts, normally.

requested font or is it considered bad typography to use this kind of
font?

If they exist, use 'em, but few things look as bad as using a smaller
size of type in the same font, but all caps, and pretending it's
actually a small caps font, because the lines are too thin: they need
to match the body font in weight. Mind you, it's sometimes possible to
fake it by using a demibold in a smaller size, but I've never seen
this done successfully with a sans-serif face.

///Peter