ABSTRACT
Small Capitals are only cast to Roman founts, but in England often to Italic, and are used for the purpose of giving a stronger emphasis to a word than can be conveyed to it by its being in Italic. The inconvenience arising from founts of the same body not agreeing in depth, is great, where the quadrats, through necessity, are sometimes mixed. It is a serious evil, and much to be deplored, that some method cannot be adopted to check it; as a particular work will sometimes require more quadrats than were cast to the letter; recourse must then be had to the founder, though there may be other founts in the office of the same body. The method of denoting a capital, or words of capital letters in manuscript, is by underscoring it with several distinct lines. References which are used in works with notes to them, are variously represented, though oftener by letters than other characters.
