What are small capitals? How are they different than something set in ALL CAPS?
Does your font have small caps? If not name a font that does.
Small capitals are smaller versions of capitals. They are not reduced capitals, but separately designed small capitals with an x-value that is generally higher than the lowercase letters. The stem weight is adjusted to suit the lowercase. They are used for texts containing lots of initials, abbreviations in capitals or words in capitals. Bodoni has small caps.
What are ligatures? why are they used? when are they not used? what are common ligatures? Does your font have ligatures? If not name a font that does.
Ligatures are fixed character combinations, used to avoid unattractive overlapping in normal print work of characters that could collide. If extra letter spacing is used in a text, ligatures aren't used and combinations of characters have to be set separately. Bodoni has ligatures.
What is the difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe?
An apostrophe is similar in form to a comma but placed higher and used to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, to indicate possession, or to indicate plurals in numbers. A foot mark is used to indicate measurement in feet.
What is the difference between an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)?
An inch mark is used to indicate measurement in inches. A quote mark is placed at the beginning and end of a word, quotation, piece of dialogue, or phrase use to indicate that the words do not originate with the narrator.
What is a hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used.
A hyphen is used as a symbol to break words. It is used to prevent big gaps and ugly breaks in a block of text. An example is 'pre-school.' An en dash is longer than a hyphen and is used to demarcate a parenthetical thought or to indicate a sudden change of direction. An em dash is used to demarcate parenthetical thought in English texts and the dashes are unspaced.
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