{capitalization} is about letters being UPPER CASE (also called majuscules or capitals) or lower case (miniscules), changing one into the other, or determining which one letters are. A special case of capitals are small caps, which have their own tag {small-caps}.
15
votes
3answers
248 views
Why LaTeX uses upright uppercase Greek letters by default in math mode?
Why upper-case Greek letters are typeset in upright font, i.e., \mathrm? While at the same time, some upper-case Greek letters those are also Latin Letters ,e.g., A for $\Alpha$, B for $\Beta$, are ...
3
votes
1answer
43 views
Small letters as input but capital letters as output
Is it possible to define (or is there already) a macro which takes small letters as input but gives the same letters in capital as output?
Example:
\CapLet{horse} and \CapLet{fish}
wiht the output
...
2
votes
1answer
60 views
How do I prevent proper nouns from being converted to lowercase by a bst file in LaTex?
My bibliography contains some items like this:
R. K. Sawyer, “Improvisation and the creative process: Dewey, collingwood, and the aesthetics of spontaneity,”
The problem is that the proper nouns ...
0
votes
1answer
55 views
Change “References” to “references” in table of contents [duplicate]
I am producing a simple document of the report class, with references produced by BibTeX. I would like to change the "References" text entry in the table of contents to "references", making the text ...
4
votes
1answer
39 views
control textcase within section heading
I am using IEEE document class in conference mode. I want to use a special word: name of my protocol inside the section title. The word has the form: aBCD/eFGH. Since each word of the whole section ...
0
votes
0answers
30 views
Change text in LaTeX chapter titles from “Chapter” to “chapter” [duplicate]
I want to change the text displayed for each new chapter (e.g. "Chapter 1") to lower case (e.g., "chapter 1") in the report document class. How could I go about doing this?
7
votes
1answer
359 views
Transforming the .bib file to get upper cases
With the following entry in the .bib file
@ARTICLE{a1,
AUTHOR="M., J. J.",
TITLE="My Sample Title",
JOURNAL="Journal Name",
pages="132--234",
YEAR=2000`
}
and with \bibliographystyle{plain} in the ...
6
votes
1answer
69 views
Force all small caps
Is it possible to force text into lower case small caps without making capital letters lower case?
None of the following makes all the letters lower case small caps:
\textsc{Can I make this line ...
2
votes
0answers
28 views
Why are capital letters missing in title of reference (using plos2009.bst)? [duplicate]
I'm using the plos2009.bst file to generate my references. However, there seems to be a bug in the .bst File since the formatation of the references is not correct. E.g. there are no capital letters ...
4
votes
1answer
90 views
Uppercase sections and subsections on ToC
How can I insert \MakeUppercase inside the table of contents for sections and subsection?
\renewcommand{\l@section}[2]%
{\@dottedtocline{1}{.5em}{1.3em}%
{{\bfseries\selectfont#1}}{#2}}
4
votes
2answers
107 views
Change TOC to use underline in subsubsections
I am using the package memoir and I need to redefine the fonts in TOC with this rules:
For Chapters: all-caps and bold
For Sections: bold
For SubSections: bold and italic
For SubSubSections: bold ...
1
vote
3answers
205 views
Capital cursive E in math mode? [duplicate]
How do I get a capital Cursive "E" in math mode? See picture encl.
3
votes
1answer
53 views
Capitalizing “forthcoming” in bibliography but not in citation
I'm citing a couple of forthcoming articles without a known publication date, so I want to have "forthcoming" instead of the year in both in-text citations and the bibliography. However, I want to ...
5
votes
1answer
196 views
Capitalize the first letter of each word in biblatex
I'm trying to get every word in the title of each article in my reference list in capital letters (So Something Like This For Every Title). However, somehow \MakeSentenceCase remains active no matter ...
2
votes
1answer
117 views
biblatex-apa: sentence case not working
Biblatex-Apa should automatically print titles in the reference list in sentence case, but for some reason it doesn't work (note the lowercase A after the colon):
\documentclass{article}
...
5
votes
2answers
1k views
Disable/toggle smallcaps in the title
I am using the amsart document class. I want to to change the text in the titles (such as in \author) to be written normally and not in small caps.
How can I change this globally? That is, so that ...
4
votes
2answers
910 views
Using Springer lncs and biblatex - wrong heading is shown for last page
I have a little problem with the Springer llncs class and biblatex. I use the parameter runninghead with the llncs class to show title and page number in the document head. At the last page where the ...
6
votes
1answer
148 views
Acronym at sentence start: capital or not?
The recommended way of typesetting acronyms is using small caps, e.g.:
This technique is called Remote Procedure Calling or {\scshape rpc}.
However, if the acronym occurs at the beginning of the ...
12
votes
1answer
259 views
Towards a \ucshape and \textuc command for uppercase text (XeTeX, LuaTeX)
While we have \textit and \textsc, \itshape and \scshape etc., there's no \textuc and \ucshape to typeset its argument in uppercase. There is \MakeUppercase, but -- as uppercase is not a font style -- ...
15
votes
3answers
370 views
Capitalizing strings ignoring closed class words
I was just reviewing my "capitalization standards" for titles and such and was wondering if there's a macro to do the same thing I'm forced to do by hand nowadays. My personal rules (feel free to ...
6
votes
5answers
190 views
Converting Text to Title Case [duplicate]
is there a way to automatically format a text in title-case? Something like typing:
\somemagiccommand{the table, the ass and the stick}
which would yield:
The Table, the Ass and the Stick
I have ...
3
votes
1answer
77 views
auto-capitalise the output of a newcommand
How can I create a newcommand that automictically capitalises the first letter, when the command is used after a full stop (or question mark, exclamation mark, etc.)?
\newcommand{\tinycommand}{tiny ...
2
votes
0answers
43 views
Duplicate entries in index when using lowercase [duplicate]
I'm trying to create an index for my thesis and I have a custom command that outputs the index term inline and adds it to the index as well. I want to ignore spaces of terms so I issue a \lowercase to ...
22
votes
3answers
1k views
BibTeX handling of the Dutch “van” name prefix with natbib
I want to produce the following with LaTeX/BibTeX:
In the running text:
... we refer the reader to the work of Van Noort (2010).
In the bibliography:
Thomas van Noort. An important paper. ...
8
votes
1answer
181 views
Annoying problem with fancyhdr and auto-generated chapters
I have been facing an annoying little problem. I'm using fancyhdr to customize the headings on my thesis but according to the package documentation it is unable to remove the "uppercasedness" of the ...
7
votes
3answers
141 views
biblatex: Preserve capitalisation in inproceedings/booktitle
I'm using Biblatex-APA/Biber with LyX and a Bibtex-file produced from Mendeley. I can produce bibliographies without any problem, but I would like to change the reference style for ...
5
votes
2answers
597 views
Centering and \MakeUppercase with linebreaks
I wish to make the list of authors show up as centered, uppercase and listed vertically on my titlepage. My documentclass contains a section like this
\begin{center}
...
...
3
votes
1answer
45 views
cleveref: \lcnamecref fails to work with theorem names that are not pre-defined
I'm using cleveref with the capitalise option, and I'd like to use the \lcnamecref command to give the name of one of my theorems in the text. But if this is not one of the theorem types pre-defined ...
8
votes
2answers
3k views
Autoref's inserted text has not the correct case
I'm using the \autoref tag which comes with the package hyperref for referencing my algorithms, figures etc. I read that it automatically adjusts the reference text's case, but it won't work with my ...
1
vote
1answer
48 views
How to use soul with glossaries to space-out acronyms?
I want to increase the spacing between capital letters of acronyms inside text. Acronyms are printed by \ac, \acs, etc. commands of the glossaries package. soul package provides a nice command \caps. ...
2
votes
1answer
84 views
New command to create a new type of citation
I defined a new command to an specific type of citation:
\newcommand{\apud}[4]{\citeauthor{#1} \mkbibparens{\citeyear{#1},\space{#2} apud \cite{#3},\space{#4}}}
That produce this output:
Carnap ...
4
votes
1answer
103 views
biblatex: uppercase in \parencite, but not in \textcite
How can I make \parencite produce an uppercase output, but normal case for \textcite?
Result:
\parencite{CARNAP1934} -> (CARNAP, 1934)
\textcite{CARNAP1934} -> Carnap (1934)
MWE:
...
3
votes
1answer
70 views
Set some letters in a title of a cited article majuscule [duplicate]
I use abbrvnat as bib style: \bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}. It seems that all the letters, except the 1st one, in the title field of an article are set systematically in minuscule (lowercase). But ...
0
votes
0answers
47 views
why does text change to all lowercase letters? [duplicate]
in my .bib file I have a citation
@article{IEEstd1,
title={a12312... - IEEE Standard for ...
why does it appear like this in generated pdf
a12312... - ieee Standard for ...
3
votes
1answer
111 views
Switching text case with package collcell
I would like to use the package collcell to change the case of every string in a column of a tabuenvironment. I know there are workarounds to do this without resorting to the package, but none of ...
23
votes
2answers
728 views
What is the proper use of \@ (i.e., backslash-at)?
In this answer, \@ is used after a period and before an \xspace, presumably to indicate that the preceding period (in "etc.") was not sentence-final.
In these tips, \@ is used before a period and ...
2
votes
1answer
238 views
How to get BibLaTeX-chicago use title case capitalization?
According to the 16th version of the Chicago Manual of Style, titles in the reference list are now supposed to be capitalized in title case style rather than sentence casing. Yet, as far as I ...
8
votes
1answer
78 views
Changing case of URL in \href argument
I would like to write a macro similar to the \href command from the hyperref package, but which takes a single argument. The URL is generated by making the argument lowercase.
Here is a minimal ...
5
votes
2answers
155 views
Lower case in section title
I am quite newbie in LaTeX. Following examples in other questions for using lower case in titles, I tried to mimic them without success, when applying it to a section:
I am working in LyX2.0.
...
4
votes
1answer
228 views
In fancyhdr, ensure every letters in chapter/title names are in lowercase
In designing novels, (Document-class Book KOMA SCRIPT) I prefer to use all-small-caps in the running heads. Please find the first example, where both howards end and chapter 29 were all set in ...
5
votes
1answer
280 views
force section and subsection to capital letters
hi Im trying to renew the section cmd to make all sections in capitals.
i have tried stuff like
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
...
2
votes
2answers
802 views
BibTeX .bst file: make author's last name uppercase, leave first name intact?
How do you set up your BibTeX style file (.bst) so that it makes author's surnames (last names) uppercase?
Example of what I want:
SILVERMAN, David. Interpreting qualitative data: methods for ...
10
votes
2answers
174 views
author name with periods produces Et al
I want to cite this article:
@article{kc2010ppe,
author = {K.C., Samir and Barakat, B. and Goujon, A. and Skirbekk, V. and Sanderson, W. and Lutz, W.},
journal = {Demographic Research},
number = ...
3
votes
1answer
228 views
Acronym upper/lower/mixed case, and pluralisation
My question is really a further question of this post.
I've used the following code from there in my tex doc.:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{acronym}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
...
7
votes
1answer
646 views
Using acronyms at start of sentence
I want it to capitalize the first letter of an expanded acronym used at the start of a sentence, like:
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are ...
I tried to define a new command \Acp for ...
3
votes
1answer
177 views
How to uppercase heavily customised sections (sectsty+fontspec)?
I am trying to customise the aspect of a scrbook to look like a book I have.
In my case, sections should be formatted as follows: the font face should be Conques Demi, the font size 26 pt, the font ...
5
votes
2answers
88 views
\uppercase does not work with \IfSubStr?
I'm using \IfSubStr macro of xstring package to decide if user given options contains some letter and if they do I take some actions.
I want case independent test on whether user options contain ...
6
votes
1answer
87 views
Why does \uchyph=0 not work for me?
Why does \uchyph=0 not work for me?
It is in my preamble, but Istill get names of people hyphenated.
Is it a font issue?
I typeset with XeLaTeX.
Minimal example: try with XeLaTeX with and ...
5
votes
2answers
267 views
fancyhead not in small caps
The text in my fancyhead is written in small caps. I would like to have it not in small caps. How can I do?
This is my fancyhead:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
...
17
votes
4answers
2k views
Command to uppercase the first letter of each word in a sentence
I'm writing a textboox in latex, and I have things like
\textit{some definition}\index{Some Definition}
all over the place. I'd like to combine them into something like
\define{some definition}
...
