In reply to Small caps in technical writing:
> The reader wants to see small caps (or capital
> letters) used uniformly across different books.
1) I don't believe a reader can, should or wants to
care to this extent. And this is exactly why [text]
typography is an under-the-radar sort of endeavor.
2) By that logic we should limit ourselves in all
kinds of ways. Like only using Times. No way José.
> I think I look for a particular word more than a capitalized word.
It does depend on the type of work.
But most scanning is for proper nouns.
hhp