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276 Text Handling

AS TYPED This is the default setting for all text, the case remains as whatever
you typed.

ALL CAPS Text is always all upper case, whether it was typed as upper or
lower case.

ALL LOWER Text is always all lower case, whether it was typed as upper or
lower case.

INITIAL CAPS The first letter of each word is capitalized.

SMALL CAPS Characters that were typed as lower case are shown as small
upper case characters. Characters that were typed as upper case
will appear as normal, so slightly larger.

Many OpenType fonts actually include special character glyphs for SMALL CAPS and if the
font you are using does, Designer 16 will use them, so you will see Small Caps text
appear exactly as the font designer intended. If the font you are using does not provide
its own Small Caps character glyphs, Designer will use the font’s ordinary upper case
characters, but at a reduced size. Therefore you can safely use this option with any font,
whether or not the font has Small Caps support.

These options are all text settings, so they not only change the case of the selected text,
they are also applied as settings to the text so that subsequent editing maintains the
case setting you’ve chosen (in the same way that the Bold and Italic settings on text
work).
These settings also work with text styles, just as all other text settings do, so for example
you can define a heading style to always appear in Capitals by applying ALL CAPS and
then updating the style definition.

TOGGLE CASE
This option is shown in a separate section of the menu because unlike the other options
above it is not a setting - it simply toggles the case of each letter in the selected text.

Subscript & superscript
Click the appropriate button on the InfoBar.

superscript
Normal text subscript