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I don't see any obvious options for small caps in Pages, either under styles or text formatting. Do I need a special font, or does Pages have small caps capability at all?

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Maybe this link to the documentation of Pages helps you out?

  1. Choose Format > Font > Capitalization and choose an option from the submenu.
  2. Choose Small Caps to change the text to smaller capitals with larger capitals for uppercase letters
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It's also buried on the inspector window - but knowing the menu path is faster in most cases than navigating amongst the tabs of that control element. – bmike♦ May 3 '12 at 13:37
Note, however, that this fakes small-caps (scaled down versions of the full caps that look rather anemic). To get proper small-caps, you had to open the Font panel (cmd-t) and then open the Font Panel Actions (small sprocket on the bottom left) and select typography. This used to allow you to use the real small-caps provided with OTF fonts, but it has been broken for about a year now... has Apple abandoned high-quality typography? (See discussions.apple.com/thread/4403525 for some details.) – mforbes Mar 17 at 19:23

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