Questions tagged [small-caps]
{small-caps} is about the use and provision of small capitals: uppercase (capital) characters set at the same height as lowercase characters (usually 1ex).
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Upper case author names for BST file (based on APA)
I have created a .bst file using makebst. It is based on the APA style.
I have compared the .bst file to other bst files, and trying unsuccessfully to put the authors in the bibliography in capitals.
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Small capitals with biblatex
It looks like a bug has been introduced in the last update of biblatex. The code below used to output author's family names in small capitals, but not anymore?
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\...
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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}
\end{...
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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:
\documentclass{...
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ToC heading pushed down with "tocloft"
ToC heading is pushed down when using tocloft package – even without any commands written. Leaving it out puts things back in place. Also I noticed the smaller the \document[font-size], the bigger ...
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Small caps for the math mode
How do I make "E" in this equation a small cap?
$x^E$
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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 \textsc{o}open\textsc{mp}...
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How can I improve my Turkish Small Capitals (XeTeX)
Status update
In a private email, Bogusław Jackowski (to whom my sincere thanks) has recognised this as a bug in the TeX Gyre fonts. As the TeX Gyre team are all working hard on another piece of the ...
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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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Combining sffamily and scshape
According to a relevant comment, one should be able to specify both weights and shapes for each family.
Why can I (seemingly) not have small caps with \sffamily?
Minimal example:
\documentclass{...
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Can small-caps be automated for abbreviations and acronyms?
Is there a way to force LaTeX to automatically use small-caps for abbreviations and acronyms (or more specifically, strings of two or more uppercase letters)?
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Looking for guides on setting text with regards to good typography
I'm about to dive into LaTeX in preparation for writing a (technical) Master's Thesis. Since I'm kind of disappointed with the disregard to typography that is sometimes shown in such works I want to ...
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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 is ...
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microtype tracking disables small caps in luaLaTeX
Normall microtype tracking loosens the tracking of small caps. However, with fontspec's \setmainfont{ebgaramond}, small caps are completely disabled and I get a loose normal text,
as opposed to
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Abbreviations for AM, PM (small caps) for use within \textbf
I have been using \textsc for the abbreviations for AM, PM, but it does not work within \textbf{}. As you can see in the image, within a \textbf{}, it reverts to the normal lower case letter. Ulrike ...
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lualatex: smallcaps and microtype don't work together
Compiling the following MWE with lualatex doesn't produce small caps.
There are no font warnings.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfeature{Microtype}{protrusion=default, ...
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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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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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Small Caps in Gentium Plus after MiKTeX update
I'm using Gentium Plus under XeTeX for quite a long time now, and it always worked like a charm. However, after updating MiKTeX (I'm running version 2.9.4902 now), small caps are not displayed ...
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Cannot get small caps acronyms to work using glossaries package
I've managed to get glossaries to set the acronyms in the body in small caps in the way I want, but in the list of acronyms they insist on coming out in lower-case.
Can anyone (a) tell me what I've ...
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Removing ligatures for small caps in TeX4HT
The Amazon Kindle has a default font which features small caps and ligatures, but not ligatures for small caps. For this reason, when it sees ligatures (even common ones, such as "ff"), it renders them ...
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Italic small caps not working
I use small caps with \textsc{} a lot, but cannot find a way to get it set in italics. This is primarily a problem inside environments such as theorems, where the theorem text is set in italics, so ...
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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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Glossaries package: small caps in body and normal caps in the acronym list
I want a list of acronyms to be printed in normal caps. However, I want small caps acronyms in the body text. I use glossaries package as the following example. Would you please help?
\documentclass[...
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Redefine \textsc for slightly large small caps
In most fonts, the small caps are as tall as the x-height, but this looks weird when you want to tack an 's' onto the end of an abbreviation to make it plural (discussed in depth on typophile).
I can ...
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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:
\documentclass[11pt]{...
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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}
%
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX,Numbers=OldStyle,Scale=...
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letterspacing italic small caps automatically
The MinionPro-It.otf file I am using contains italic small caps, confirmed with otfinfo -f MinionPro-It.otf and cfftot1 MinionPro-It.otf | t1testpage | epstopdf --filter > MinionPro-It.pdf.
The ...
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Set tracking for small caps selected by \scshape
If a font family doesn't have a bold font, it makes sense to me to use small caps instead. But when I redefine \bfseries to mean \scshape, there's no tracking in those small caps. How can I set that?
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Mixing uppercase, lowercase, and small caps?
The problem
I want to follow The Economist's example for annoyingly mixed-case words: letterspace them, capitalize the first letter according to normal rules, and set all other capitals as small ...
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Fontspec: Bold Small Caps with Alegreya Font
I'm using the Alegreya font in XeLaTeX and, after scouring the fontspec documentation, I can't figure out how to specify the bold small caps font (not to mention the italic small caps). I feel like ...
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How to define \sc in TeX?
Taking inspiration from the TeXbook (page 350) I defined:
\font\tensc=eccc1000
\font\twelvesc=eccc1200
For example, the following works as expected:
\font\tensc=eccc1000
\centerline{Donald {\tensc ...
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Automatically Display the First Word of Every Quotation in Small Caps
Consider the code
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[sfdefault]{cabin}
\newcommand{\longemdash}{{\fontfamily{cmss}\selectfont---}}
\newcommand{\emdash}{\nobreak---\...
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Bold small caps with mathpazo
I was using tgpagella but it doesn't have automatic old style numbers without resorting to fontspec. I was directed to use mathpazo like so:
\usepackage[sc,osf]{mathpazo}
How do I format mathpazo ...
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Small Caps with Gill Sans MT
I don't get it. Gill Sans MT supports Small Caps without any issue in Word and Powerpoint. Font recognition apps event identify it. And yet, there is no way I can get them.
\documentclass{article}
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combine \usepackage{times} and \fontspec \setmainfont
I'm having difficulty finding a Times-like font which has support for Americanist phonetic symbols, bold, italic, bold italic and small caps.
Currently, I've got a setup using xelatex which gets me ...
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Biblatex and small capitals for surname
Since none of the answers (like this) did not work for me, please, take a look on following. In my document I have this (short example for clearance)
\usepackage[
backend=biber
,style=iso-numeric
,...
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Fontspec - Italic small caps with semi-bold
I have problems when I use small italic capitals with a "non-standard" font weight (here semi-bold).
I tried several things like FontFace={sb}{it}{Font=LinLibertine_RZI_G. ttf, ...
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Making slanted small capital letter
I am using kpfonts and I know I have to use \textscsl to get a slanted small caps but is there any way in which I can substitute automatically to \textscsl{slanted-small-caps} whenever I have the text ...
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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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Glossaries package: smallcaps and uppercase in index does not work
I am using the glossaries package in pdfLaTeX. I am trying to
use the acronyms written in small caps in the body text
and
for the index, make the first letter of each entry name in the glossary ...
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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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\textsc in IEEE Access Template
I am struggling to use \textsc in the IEEE Access Template that can be downloaded from here.
To be able to compile it in Linux, I had to change the name of the logos as explained here. After that, ...
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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}
\def\thechapter{{\scshape\...
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Small caps and bold styles in beamer
I am trying to use small caps and boldface styles together in beamer but it is not producing the desired output. How is possible to use both styles without changing too much the default beamer's font?
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LatinModern is messing up with my ToC
Today I asked a question about the ToC formatting and I came up with a very unique macro that resolve all of my problems, but when I just began to enjoy the "answer" given another problem took me at ...
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small-caps figures, anyone?
Is there a good (possibly free) opentype font out there with small-caps figures and small question and exclamation marks; and could I use them with xelatex + fontspec?
Or, better still, is there a ...
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How can I prevent koma-script from changing the font?
The following code doesn't use KOMA-script ans is able to generate title with small caps:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\...
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lmodern package with small caps in headlines
I need your help. I write my bachelor thesis and our prof wants us to use latex with lmodern characters. I have some fixed descriptions that need to be written in small caps in the headlines. The ...
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Biblatex: Authors in small caps and bold in bibliography
I am using scrreprt KOMA-class with biblatex.
I have my citations and bibliography set up as desired:
However, one detail is missing: I would like the authors in the bibliography to be both small ...