[softwarelist] Re: Ovation Pro 2.92 (19 January 2007) Windows

David Pilling wrote:
In message <45B1F14B.2070606@xxxxxxxx>, Clive Bonsall <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx> writes
One answer to your question, perhaps, is provided by the different behaviour of small caps between OPW and MSWORD.
If MS Word does change the characters then it would not be as good a system as OP, because in general you would not be able to remove the effect - well it depends how clever they are with applying and removing effects, but your example of copying to the clipboard illustrates the problem.
That is the intersting thing ... MS Word (and WordPad) is able to recognize that (its own) small caps is lower case with an effect applied, and is able to remove it again. But to other programs (Notepad, OPW) it appears as caps.
I've just had a look at the source code, it seems there are 8 possibilities for the case effect, so far four are used. So it would be easy to add swap case as another value.
That would be useful ... especially as it seems to be available in some other DTP packages. 
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C.B.

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