{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}.
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Bibtex reference capitalisation concerning surname additions (van, van der, 't, etc) [duplicate]
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Bibtex handling of the Dutch “van” name prefix with natbib
In Dutch many people have a surname addition (Jan de Vries, Peter van Sluik), which are capitalized when the ...
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Uppercase until end of group
In LaTeX, all font commands have two versions, one requires an argument (\textbf, \textit, \textsc etc), other changes the font until the end of group (\bfseries, \itshape, \scshape etc). The latter ...
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Titlesec and ACM conference format: How to get proper capitalization of sections
The ACM conference format requires that the first three sections "Catagories and Subject Descriptors", "General Terms" and "Keywords" be special sections with lowercase titles. All other sections ...
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uppercase and \spacefactor
Apparently, \uppercase forgets about the \spacefactor at the end.
For example,
{What is the spacefactor?} \the\spacefactor.
returns
What is the spacefactor? 3000.
while
\uppercase{What is ...
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Write “A in bibliography but see” a
I'm writing my bibliography and in a title I wrote the following code:
@inproceedings
{
R14,
Author = {},
Booktitle = {},
Title = {`` A fully integrated..."},
Year = {}
}
But when I see ...
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How to render individual acronyms in lower case when used inline, but mixed case in the list of acronyms?
I would like to output acronyms with the first letter of a word in upper case when they are printed to the list of acronyms. However, it certain cases I would like to print the written out form in ...
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titlesec and bibliography
I use titlesec to capitalize and display the chapter title at the center. Everything is fine until I get to the bibliography, the word 'bibliography' is not capitalized. Here is an example
...
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Titlesec and xcolor not playing nicely?
I am trying to use the titlesec and xcolor packages together (well, actually, the tufte-book class is, but that's another story.)
Here is a minimal LaTeX file that illustrates my problem:
...
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Uppercase word in glossary, lowercase in text
Is it possible to write a word in uppercase in the glossaries but in lowercase in the text?
I could use \glslink instead of \gls, but is there no better solution?
Here is an example to clarify what I ...
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Can I set it so that math mode has uppercase letters not italicized?
Is there a way to set it so that math mode automatically stops italicizing upper-case letters? That is, so that $U$ produces the effect of what is now $\mathrm{U}$? I am using computer modern. I am ...
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Headings in report documentclass [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Headers in book format
I am working with report documentclass. I have this in my preamble:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{report}
\pagestyle{headings}
I would ...
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How to get capital letters in the titles of a biblatex bibliography [closed]
I am using biblatex together with biber and the biblatex-fiwi package.
Each word in the title data entry of the items in my bibliography should have an initial capital letter. Is there any easy way ...
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Upper and lowercase of a word in the \section heading
I'm using the \section command and wanted to change just two letters of a word to be in lowercase. How can I accomplish this? I have tried using \small command but it will not change it.
...
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Acronyms in section names with classic thesis
I have troubles using acronym package with classicthesis package when I put an acronym in a section name. The least reproducible example I could come up with is this:
\documentclass{scrreprt}
% If I ...
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Automatically capitalize macro output if used after a period [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Detect beginning of a sentence in a macro for capitalization
Is it possible to write a macro that is able to determine if it is used at the beginning of a sentence? For ...
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Capitalization of references [closed]
This question is probably beyond the scope of just TeX, but certainly interesting to many.
When referencing a figure, a lemma, or an equation in a paper, is there a general rule of whether or not to ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Switching a string in a token register to lowercase and processing via the package soul
I would like to store a string in a token register, transform it to all-lowercase, and process the resulting string via the macro \caps provided by the package soul. That is to say, transform the ...
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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 ...
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change the font of chapter title and section title
I am trying to change the font and format of heading using titlesec package. However it gives me the following error.
Missing { inserted \tableofcontents <br>
Missing { inserted ...
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Acute/grave accents: upper case versus low case
The acute and grave accents on capital letters are more squat and flatter than on lower case letters. Compare \'A with \'a. What is the code for the squatter acute/grave on capitals if I want it ...
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How to force lower case in the title?
I need to force some letters to be lower case in the title because it is part of a mathematician's name (deRham). How can I do that?
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how to make subscripts automatically choose font size
Would it be possible to make subscripts in math mode automatically choose a smaller font when a subscript is in uppercase?
E.g., if I have sA, the "A" would appear quite big. Is it possible to tell ...
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Turkish characters to small caps
Small caps (\sc) is not producing dotted I (İ)
Here is mwe
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[turkish]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
...
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Capitalize the first letter in acronym list
When using the acronym package I would like to capitalize the first letter in the acronym description (e.g., Direct current). But when used in text I would like to have the word in lower letters.
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Create a capitalized macro token using \csname
Two things I understand and one thing I don't:
I often use \csname to create user-defined tokens. For instance, the following code uses \expandafter to expand everything between \csname and ...
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How to print “LaTeX” as shown in many tutorials and books? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to write (La)TeX (with braces) [or any other TeX-related logo]
I came across the tug tutorial, and writing down the very first basic example of printing simple ...
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Capitalise table of contents title with tocloft
Simple question, but I can't put the answer together through googleing. I want to capitalize the table of contents TITLE in my LaTeX document. Nothing else. I'm using the tocloft package and various ...
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Automatically capitalise the first word in each sentence
I'm writing a report together with another person, and he often neglects to use a capital letter at the start of each sentence. Is it possible to get LaTeX to correct this automatically instead of ...
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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 ...
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amsart.cls capitalizes the article title. How to disable it?
I am writing an article with amsart.cls. amsart.cls capitalizes the title of the article. I looked into amsart.cls and found that \MakeUppercase is used in \maketitle. I tried to turn off this, but I ...
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Turkish characters to uppercase
I can't make uppercase of turkish characters like Giriş Tex converts it to GIRIş instead of GİRİŞ.. It's making me crazy.
%this is mwe i guess
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
...
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Applying \lowercase to index entries
I would like to sort the index entries independent of case.
Initially I was getting (code provided in MWE) the image on the left. So, that seemed like an easy fix: just apply \lowercase (uncomment ...
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Page header - Upper and lower case
First of all: this is the first time that I use LaTeX.
I have these commands that create my header:
\usepackage[headsepline,plainheadsepline]{scrpage2}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\clearscrheadfoot ...
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Is there a special hyphen-symbol to be used between capital letters?
In words consisting of small letters, the - hyphen seems right. In words (abbreviations, acronyms) consisting of capital letters, the common hyphen appears (at least imho) to be placed too low and to ...
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Generate labels using xstring and \Makelowercase
I am trying to write a command that allows me to reference a subsection with a generated label.
The idea is that when I declare a step \step{Long Name With Many Uppercase Letters}, the generated ...
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Headers in book format
I am writting my thesis. I don't want the headers in each chapter to appear just in capital letters. Can I override the class file to get the header as " My First Chapter"?
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How do I prevent TeX from hyphenating acronyms?
Upper-case words look awkward when hyphenated. How do I suppress this behavior?
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Why are there lowercase letters in TeX and LaTeX?
Notice that the letters here are all uppercase. Is there any reason why we write TeX and LaTeX respectively? Is it for emphasis? Or does it just make it look similar to the staggered lettering of ...
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How to uppercase/lowercase the ending 's' in plural acronyms
I'm using a template that somebody else has created, so I don't know if the default LaTeX acronym option is to upper- or lowercase the ending 's', but I would like to have it lowercase. Currently it ...
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How can I get capitalised cross references in LyX with refstyle
LyX (v2.03) uses refstyle for cross references. By default if you use the GUI to create a reference it produces source that looks like:
\tabref{label1}
\figref{label2}
which produces an output like ...
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votes
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Page headers in uppercase (amsbook+chapterbib+natbib)
I have the following problem which has been driving me crazy for quite some time now. Using the amsbook class for whatever you are intending to use it for, in the end you will end up having your page ...
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Preventing \MakeUppercase from affecting mathematics
Is there a way to prevent \MakeUppercase from affecting in-text equations? In this example, abc should change to ABC, but n should be left as it is.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
...
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Writing the chapter and the heading in two different ways
How can I write in capitals the first letter of each word in a title?
In other words, I want to write the title normally
\chapter{Title of my chapter}
and to have the heading in this way
Title Of ...
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Applying an operation only to capitals
I'd like to apply a function to capitals only so that:
\emphcaps{YaWeH}
Outputs like:
\emph{Y}a\emph{W}e\emph{H}
Preferably without using too many packages (I already use memoir).
NOTES: I use ...
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votes
2answers
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Printing the bibliography heading in uppercase but showing it as sentence case in the ToC
At my class I am supposed to write a report where the chapter headings are always in uppercase, but have to printed in sentence case in the table of contents. For regular chapters I have achieved this ...
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votes
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Should the case of the title of the original publication be preserved in the bibliography?
In the LaTeX template I'm using, the titles of the publications listed in the bibliography are automatically set to all lowercase (except for the first word). I was surprised by this as I would have ...
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votes
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Stop memoir from making mathmode section names uppercase in header
I'm typesetting my thesis with memoir and in general I'm happy with the result. However, some of my section headers have math mode text like \section{The $\phi_{ij}$ matrix} which memoir comically ...
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Force References Heading to Uppercase when calling \bibliography{bib filename}
Using \bibliography{filename}
when I have
\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,twocolumn]{article}
And
\bibliographystyle{plain}
before I call: \bibliography{filename}
I get the heading ...
