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And at the end of the day, what exactly is the big deal?  This is just the sort of meaningless minutia that makes casual observers laugh their butts off at us.  It gets tedious trying to defend this program on various message boards because, really, there's no defense for this kind of stuff.

Well, I do believe that the Bosses did say that they tend to let this go on for a few (dozen) pages so that they can get a good idea on both (or multiple) sides of the argument.  Then they rule.

Now, just getting that last part out....

The only way Rho's argument would have any relevance would be IF, God Forbid Ken gives Font, Size and yes even color, then i can just see the arguments over all three. Please God, don't do that to us.<shivering at the thought>

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While an "N" is meant to give the impression of an 'n', it isn't an 'n'.

An "N" isn't an "N" either, in this context.

With all respect, I think you are incorrect.  I do feel that it is representative of an "N" in this situation.

I agree with hal9g. An "N" isn't an "N" either.

You are not looking at the entire context of the overview.

In the rest of the overview, there are proper names and proper capitalization without using small caps.  The only time that small caps are used are with the proper names of the actual actors. 

While I will grant you, in a lot of situations, the small caps would be representative of lower case letters, if the rest of the overview were written that way.  Obviously someone wanted to "emphasize" the actors names. 

In typography, small capitals (usually abbreviated small caps) are uppercase (capital) characters set at the same height as surrounding lowercase (small) letters or text figures. They are used in running text to prevent capitalized words from appearing too large on the page, and as a method of emphasis or distinctiveness for text alongside or instead of italics, or when boldface is inappropriate.

If you look at the bolded section of from above, I believe that the case can be made that the names are entirely capitalized, but do to appearance they are represented by small caps.

I am not making this judgment on what it "Looks" like, but on my belief of what it is.

Quoting CharlieM:

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You are not looking at the entire context of the overview.

In the rest of the overview, there are proper names and proper capitalization without using small caps.  The only time that small caps are used are with the proper names of the actual actors. 

While I will grant you, in a lot of situations, the small caps would be representative of lower case letters, if the rest of the overview were written that way.  Obviously someone wanted to "emphasize" the actors names. 

In typography, small capitals (usually abbreviated small caps) are uppercase (capital) characters set at the same height as surrounding lowercase (small) letters or text figures. They are used in running text to prevent capitalized words from appearing too large on the page, and as a method of emphasis or distinctiveness for text alongside or instead of italics, or when boldface is inappropriate.

If you look at the bolded section of from above, I believe that the case can be made that the names are entirely capitalized, but do to appearance they are represented by small caps.

I am not making this judgment on what it "Looks" like, but on my belief of what it is.

And I quoted this text earlier in support of the fact that they are lower case letters:

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Many word processors and text formatting systems include an option to format text in caps and small caps; this leaves uppercase letters as they are, but converts lowercase letters to small caps.

Quoting CharlieM:

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I can see the argument either way.

As can I.

I've got to go back to the one question that we've never gotten an answer for...  Why are we capturing the overview in text?  Without this knowledge, it's difficult to know what may or may not be important.

I can see capturing it as text since it is sometimes difficult to read the scanned cover, especially if you are using low resolution images.  Also, you can search the text, but I can't remember if the overview is part of the search.  For either purpose, the typographical information is not very important.

Thank You Gerri!