The issue (in the sense of the problem) is definitely still active as of ArcGIS Pro 3.1.3, and while it's possible I missed it, I haven't noticed any word about it being implemented in more recent versions. Whether the issue (in the sense of the support/bug tracker item) is actually still active is a great question, though.
ArcGIS Pro is the only program I have ever encountered that offers Small Caps as an option in the GUI that also fails to actually provide what the graphic design industry considers "Small Caps" to mean. If I just wanted "All Uppercase" at 80% size, then I could set that easily. Right now, the workaround for getting true Small Caps in layout items is to surround only the lowercase letters with small caps tags, which is more than a little obnoxious.
It got to the point where I even wrote an Arcade script to run in the labeling engine to handle this at draw-time for some of my labels. This is typed from memory without opening Pro, so you may have to treat it partially as pseudocode and fix a few things here & there.
The general gist is that it loops through every letter in the value being labeled, and if that letter is lowercase, it adds the Small Caps tags to it. The result for the word "Title" would be "T<SCP>i</SCP><SCP>t</SCP><SCP>l</SCP><SCP>e</SCP>" which is obviously very cumbersome. So the last thing I do on line 14 is strip out all those extraneous tags, so you get "T<SCP>itle</SCP>".
function TrueSmallCaps(var letter)
{
if (letter == Upper(letter))
return letter
else
return `<SCP>${letter}</SCP>`
}
var label = ''
for (var index in $feature.LabelField)
{
label += TrueSmallCaps($feature.LabelField[index])
}
return Replace(label, '</SCP><SCP>', '')
It would be so much easier to just be able to hit "Small Caps" and get the correct display, though.
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M Reed
"The pessimist may be right oftener than the optimist, but the optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events anyhow." — Lazarus Long, in Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein
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