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Smallcaps “Đ” (đ) corrupted [duplicate]
The title says it all. How do I fix it? he letter works fine when "normal" (including bold, italic, bold-italic).
I use these:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{currvita}
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Old style number, bold small caps, and Palatino
I'd like to be able to have all three of the following in my document:
the Palatino font
bold and small caps
old-style figures
I'm currently using mathpazo with the options [osf] to get 1 and 3, ...
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txfontsb small caps
For some reason I get an error message when using \textsc{} with txfontsb.sty. It can be my installation but since txfonts.sty is working I am bewildered. The MWE is here:
\documentclass{article}
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Italic small caps in urw-garamond?
I'm using the urw-garamond mathdesign package, which doesn't support italic small-caps. Is there a decent substitute I can use? I've tried the slantsc package with no luck.
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Using \scshape and \bfseries together
A very obvious one I suspect, but when I try to do the following the small caps are over-ruled by the boldface, so I get lowercase rhubarb rhubarb. Is there an easy way to get \scshape\bfseries?
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Conflict between microtype, LuaLaTeX, and otf fonts when typesetting material in small-caps
I'm using the microtype package (microtype beta 2.5 build 08) to modify my document and I'd like to retain its functionality across all font shapes with the exception of small-caps (\scshape). How do ...
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Where should I use \textsc? [closed]
When should I use macro \textsc ? What is common practice in document like diploma thesis? Should I use it for names of persons, names of described entities of particular interest or in some other ...
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Losing small caps for serif font when merging mathpazo and sourcesanspro
I use mathpazo font package to write my document. I use small caps for some text.
When I add sourcesanspro font package small caps don't work any more for normal serif font.
Here it is my MWE:
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libertineotf and xelatex - bold smallcaps broken?
It seems like bold smallcaps don't work with libertineotf any longer? I am currently adjusting an old template which I was using with pdflatex, and I need those bold small caps:
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combine \oldstylenums and \textsc
I would like to have a command that combines \oldstylenums for numbers in the argument and \textsc for text in the argument. I believe that a solution using some for loop is possible, but I think ...
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Linux Libertine does not show Greek SmallCaps
According to the Linux Libertine font tester you can have Greek small caps.
However the following example does not yield the desirable result:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
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Different small-caps in mathpazo and tgpagella - which are better?
Both the packages tgpagella and mathpazo (with "sc"-option) provide the font Palladio with true small-caps. tgpagella additionally offers a bold small-cap font. Yet when comparing the normal ...
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How to change the font for biblatex acronyms
I have a bibliography in biblatex and I want to use different fonts than Computer Modern, namely Lato & Bitstream Charter. Here is a minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
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Where does XeLaTeX look for smallcaps shapes in fonts?
In response to a deleted post, here is my attempt at formulating a question to an answer:
Where does XeLaTeX look for smallcaps shapes in fonts, on an Ubuntu system?
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All letters in uppercase, but the first letter bigger than the other ones
I want to know how can I achieve this effect in LaTeX:
Basically it looks like this: {F}IRST {L}ETTER, where the letters in the braces are a little bigger than the other ones but they all the ...
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Use of \scshape or \textsc with fontspec/xelatex
I've already tried Use of \scshape or \textsc in beamer \institute fix with \rmfamily in the MWE below, but it doesn't work - I've seen A problem with \textsc as well, but I don't think I should load ...
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Fake small caps with XeTeX/fontspec?
Using XeTeX and fontspec, I use the Liberation font family in of my documents. Unfortunately those fonts (esp. Liberation Serif) do not natively support small caps.
Is there a way to enable fake ...
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Changing default \citet font in biblatex
I'm using biblatex to manage my citation in a natbib style :
\usepackage[style=alphabetic,maxnames=6,natbib=true]{biblatex}
However when I use the \citet command, the author's name is in a \textsc ...
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How do I italicise individual words within \scshape
I am currently using mathpazo for the font for my thesis. I want to use smallcaps for my section headings (as you can see in the MWE I have set \allsectionsfont to \scshape. The problem is that I have ...
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Linux Libertine Biolinum xelatex and lualatex
This is actually two questions rolled into one. Consider the example file below:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
%
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Do mathdesign sans serif and monospaced fonts “fake” small caps?
The manual for mathdesign explains how to ensure "true" small caps are used for the main type family selected as an option, but it says nothing about whether the small caps used in other fonts are ...
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How to fake mid-caps with LaTeX? (I.e. How to stretch characters of a font?)
Background
As discussed in this question, one would often like to use small caps for abbreviations, however, mixed case acronyms such as OpenMP look rather odd (see example 2 below):
The problem ...
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Colored Small Caps [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Small Caps and Bold Face
I'm trying to get some bold, colored, small-cap text. I've tried different variations, including:
{\bf \textcolor{blue}{\textsc{text}}}
and ...
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Uppercase Smallcaps with LaTeX (not XeLaTeX)?
In XeLaTeX there is an UppercaseSmallCaps font option (as mentioned in this question for example) that will cause upper-case letters to be rendered in small-caps and lower-case letters to remain.
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A problem with \textsc
I started to write my CV in LaTeX. My document begins as
\documentclass[a4paper]{amsart}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[finnish]{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
{\large ...
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1answer
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Use of \scshape or \textsc in beamer \institute
I need to set a piece of my \institute name in small caps in my beamer presentation.
Now I set:
\institute{Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Infomazione \\ Corso di Laurea
in: {\scshape Sicurezza ...
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1answer
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Italic shape needed in small caps fonts
I am using MiKTeX 2.5 version. Is there any possibility to change the small caps fonts in italic shape?
I had tried as like below
\textit{\textsf{Small Caps}}% This will gives the Regular Small ...
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Detect which text “mode” (normal, italic, bold, etc.) is currently in use?
In my document, I'm often setting upper case words and abbreviations in small caps because it avoids breaking the flow (which upper case words does). Also, many words (like CUDA, for instance) are ...
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Disable smallcaps within \textsc?
How can I disable smallcaps within \textsc{}?
I would like to be able to disable/toggle smallcaps on a local level so that something like \textsc{o\textrm{open}mp} looks like ...
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Which LaTeX font packages contain real small caps and work with the “microtype” package?
I'm wondering which font packages are available in MikTeX and TeXLive containing real small caps and also work together with the "microtype" package? For instance, kpfonts has real small caps but ...
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Best free Baskerville font with small caps
I have been using the Baskervald font for a document but have realised that small caps do not work with it. Instead lowercase letters are used. Is there a better free option if you want these features ...
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1answer
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How can I produce TeX Gyre Pagella smallcaps using xelatex?
Here's my input file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{TeXGyrePagella}
\begin{document}
abcde ABCDE
{\scshape abcde ABCDE}
\textsc{abcde ABCDE}
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9
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Choosing font for bold small caps (or any other particular family+series+shape combination)
What is the best way (most proper and general solution) to get rid of the warning
LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted.
by explicitly setting which font ...
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Writing complexity classes in LaTeX
Is there anyone who knows which package/style should I use to write a complexity class like this? You can see the highlighted word below, this is an all-caps word, but some letters are slightly bigger ...
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OpenType Kerkis and bold Small Caps with greek
Kerkis font is an OpenType font that has Greek glyphs Small Caps both for regular and bold shapes. The names of the OTF files are KerkisSmallCaps.otf and KerkisSmallCaps-Bold.otf.
When I compile the ...
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1answer
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Small caps with CMSS?
How can I use small caps with the CMSS font?
When trying to set fontshape to "sc" I get a serif font or just no change (if I use fonthshapealone):
result of example below:
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1answer
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Using small caps roman for chapter number with memoir class
I want to use small caps roman numbers for chapter numbering using memoir. So far I have tried the following:
\documentclass[oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage[osf]{mathpazo}
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Using small caps for abbreviations
I’m using small caps to mark up acronyms. Many style guides recommend this to make the acronyms stand out less among the lower-case letters.
However, I didn’t find good advice of what to do with ...
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small digits for small caps
I want to typset "FP6" as small caps. Putting {\sc fp6} does the right thing on the letters, but the digit 6 is much taller, and the result looks ugly.
What is the best workaround to make digits ...
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fontinst and italic small caps
I have a font that is distributed with italic small caps. I'd like to use these with fontinst. Does the current release of fontinst support italic small caps, and if so, what Karl Berry name should I ...
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Which fonts that are part of TeXLive have “real small caps”?
The TeX font catalogue doesn't allow you to see which fonts have real small caps. Some fonts do not have real small caps (e.g. any of the mathdesign ones). But some do (computer modern and therefore ...
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bold small caps with mathpazo
The URW Palldio font (mathpazo package) does not provide bold small caps. To get round this issue, I'd want to make a macro to use small caps usually and normal caps in bold text.
I tried this code:
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Small Caps and Bold Face
I can't seem to have both the small caps and boldface styles on a line:
\huge\sc\bf Hello
This will generate bold text, and if the \sc is placed after, it will generate small caps text but not ...
