{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 loses capitals when creating .bbl file
Titles of articles I'm about to cite contain uppercase letters and when using BibTeX it converts them in lowercase ones. This happens only in title and only first letter conserves it's case. For ...
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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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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}
...
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Are there purely expandable variants of \MakeUppercase?
\MakeUppercase and \uppercase use TeX's uccode, and they are not purely expandable. Say,
\edef\temp{\MakeUppercase{abc}}
will fail.
Sometimes purely expandable macros are very useful. They are ...
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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. ...
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Sentence case for titles in biblatex
I'd like to have the titles of articles in Biblatex in sentence case (first word capitialized, the rest lowercase, override with {}) as is the default in Bibtex.
I tried:
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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 ...
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Proper casing in citation/bibliography titles using biblatex/Biber
My understanding is that bibtex lets the citation style handle capitalization of titles, which is what I would expect from an automated citation tool. Do biblatex and Biber also do this? The document ...
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Detect beginning of a sentence in a macro for capitalization
Is it possible to make macros give different results at the beginning of a new sentence? Suppose that I want the macro "\secname" to write "Section" at the beginning of a new sentence, and "section" ...
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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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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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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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Using \MakeUppercase in \@startsection
I was toying a bit with the \@startsection command to change the layout of chapter / section headings. More specifically, I wanted my headers to be converted to uppercase.
I was following an example ...
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setkomafont with uppercase that works robustly
I know that \setkomafont is supposed to deal with switching fonts but sometimes instead of switching font, I'd like to switch to uppercase. I've not found a way to do this reliably. This breaks:
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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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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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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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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 -- ...
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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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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 ...
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Biblatex, capitalization of arabic names and name prefixes
As we know, using the useprefix option, when name prefixes like von, della etc. are present in the bibliography, enables us to change name sorting as well as capitalize those prefixes using commands ...
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How to prevent upper case in page header?
I just came across this small problem which I can't seem to fix. I have a section which looks like this:
\section{Properties of $C_q$}
The problem is that the header of the page uses upper case and ...
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Can one set a specific font variant in xelatex for uppercase letters only?
I would like to typeset a short, letter-like document using the Zapfino font, with the following twist: I'm OK using Zapfino's "standard" (i.e., Variant 0) glyphs for lowercase letters, but I'd like ...
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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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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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biblatex: sentence case and nested quotation marks
If a title contains formatting commands, how can we hook in \MakeSentenceCase to ensure correct casing and, say, nesting of quotation marks? The example below doesn't work; the quotes are properly ...
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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 ...
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Typeset cftchapfont as uppercase
I'm trying to put the whole cftchapfont as uppercase.
\renewcommand\cftchapfont{\MakeUppercase}
does not work at all (it actually messes up everything), nor does:
...
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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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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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Preserve lowercase in bibtex
I'm using mla-paper package. the name Ferdinand de Saussure in bibliography gets shown as De Saussure, Ferdinand. But I want de in lowercase like so: de Saussure, Ferdinand. In citations it gets shown ...
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Preserving capitalization in BibTeX titles
I use the LaTeX wikibook a lot and found this solution to preserving capitalization in titles, which is to wrap letters (or whole titles) in curly braces. The phrase "In the event that BibTeX has been ...
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Macro for typesetting acronyms
All-caps acronyms and brand names like IBM look better when typeset a little smaller than usual. My simple solution is the following macro:
\def\<#1>{{\small #1}}
It's used like here ...
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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}
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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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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 ...
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Description list using package enumitem: how to force lowercase small caps and align body text?
I'm trying to format a description list with small caps for the labels and have the body text a standard distance from the left margin. When I use capitals in the labels (in the real list they are ...
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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 ...
