Enquiry on small caps in Russian

[William Ryan]

Small caps are called kapiteli or kapitel'nyi shrift in Russian. Some 
cyrillic fonts have them. Most unicode fonts don't as far as I can tell, 
and most western digital fonts with a cyrillic subset remain unchanged 
if you try to change to small cap.
For a brief technical discussion of cyrillic small cap see 
http://www.paratype.ru/help/term/terms.asp?code=320
Of actual current usage in Russian typographical design I have no 
knowledge - my old Spravochnik zhuralista doesn't mention them - but 
Russian Wikipedia (article on kapiteli) lists some current uses in 
Russian and suggests that the use of properly designed cyrillic kapiteli 
is growing.

Will Ryan



J. W. wrote:
> Could anyone familiar with the current Russian press
> please tell me whether small capitals are ever used in
> place of lower-case letters in Russian texts? 

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