Re: \smallCaps is a copy of \caps [?!]

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Nicolas,

> \caps used to change the font shape to caps, which is available in eg
> ccm, but not in CenturySchoolBook. So when the later was the default
> font, \caps had no effect.
> A hackish \smallCaps was developped, which change lower case  
> letters to
> smaller upper case letters.
>
> So at some point, the two were different commands, one working only  
> with
> fonts that had the caps shape variant, and the other, more ugly,  
> but which
> works with the default font.
>
> In the end, because of the numerous questions about why \caps has  
> no effect,
> it was decided to be made identical to \smallCaps.

Thanks for the explanation.

Would it be possible to repurpose \caps to do what it actually says,  
i.e., turn text to UPPERCASE?
Can I make this happen easily in Scheme alone?

Thanks,
Kieren.