In reply to Small caps in technical writing:
Another problem is that we often perceive things differently than they actually are, and good fonts make the appropriate adjustments. Here is a small example (with Gentium, but it works the same with other fonts I have tried).
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I must confess that for me the "A" in "All" looks smaller than the "A" in "ATM" though both are identical.