{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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Small-caps, old-style numbers, and some ligatures produce odd symbols in PDF copy text?
This is a problem I've had consistently with XeLaTeX. Here's a small example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,Numbers={OldStyle,Proportional}]{Minion Pro}
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Is it possible to provide alternative text to use when copying text from the PDF?
I’m using XeLaTeX within MiKTeX and have the following problem.
Let there be some acronym, e.g. USA. I would like to write it in real small caps using \textsc{usa} but these are, of course, ...
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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 ...
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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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Problem with kerning using LuaLaTeX
I am having a problem with kerning while using LuaLaTeX. In my example, the pair “AT” does not render well. This is clear by comparing LuaLaTeX output with XeLaTeX's, which from the same code renders ...
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Increasing Letterspace for words in caps or small caps
Some typographers say it's a good habit to increase the letterspace when writing words in caps or small caps. So my question is, how to do it with pdflatex and/or xelatex? And while we're at it, which ...
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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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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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fontspec, lua, microtype: Renderer=Basic no longer working for specific font styles
You may have noticed that, as of now,* letterspacing small capitals is not as easy as it was in pdfTeX, where we could simply combine \textsc with microtype's \textls. Consider this example, which ...
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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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Fontspec: Palatino with small caps and old-style figures
For various reasons, I’m using the fontspec package.
However, I’d also like to use Palatino as the document’s main font, and I want to use it with small caps and old-style figures.
So I’ve got four ...
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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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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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Change title to small caps but not in ToC
I want the title for the Acknowledgements page in my thesis to be in small caps. However, if I change it, it also changes in the table of contents.
How can I avoid this? Especially, the roman page ...
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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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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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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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Lowercase small caps in section/subsection/…
I'm interested in setting the titles of section and more in lowercase small caps. And I don't know how to automatically achieve this.
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\setkomafont{sectioning}{\scshape}
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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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First few words of a chapter/section in small-caps?
Is there a package that automatically tells LaTeX to use small-caps for the first few words (say, three) in a chapter/section/subsection?
Thanks
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Problem with letter “\dj” in small-caps font
The letter \dj has its bar placed too high when used in lower case small caps, e.g.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[croatian]{babel}
\begin{document}
\textsc{\dj}
\end{document}
What ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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To make the russians and greeks authors' surnames in small caps in biblatex
I'm writing a bachelor in French and when I cited books in Russian and Greek the authors' surnames wasn't displayed in footnotes and in bibliography in small caps, in the same text there are no such ...
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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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\TeX in small caps?
I'm writing a handout for an informal LaTeX course I'm running. I want to use small caps to highlight important words concepts etc. I mention the editor TeXshop, and since I think the names of editors ...
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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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Using \textsc{} within \section{}
When I try to do something like \section{Heading with \textsc{small caps}}, the compiler complains with "LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted." and replaces ...
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Minion Pro activate small caps for greek
According to otfinfo, greek small capitals are supported in Minion Pro.
otfinfo --script=grek -f MinionPro-Regular.otf
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smcp Small Capitals
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yet the following MWE
\documentclass{article}
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Matching punctuation size to small caps
Normal apostrophes are too big for small caps and this is making my running headers look weird.
I'm getting around this by shrinking each apostrophe to \footnotesize and lowering it by -0.55ex.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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How to do extra spacing when using small caps for abbreviations?
The default letter spacing for small capitals seem optimised for use in headlines and such but a bit too cramped for use in abbreviations. How should I do to get the letter spacing more suitably ...
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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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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 ...
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cfr-lm & sans serif small caps
How can I have the sans serif small caps with this fonts?
\documentclass{book}
% Latin Modern with oldstyle digits
\usepackage[%
rm={oldstyle,proportional},%
sf={oldstyle,proportional},%
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Is there a way to configure a command to affect the following paragraph?
I have made the following small command to insert visible section breaks in a manuscript:
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\subsectionbreak}{
\vspace{1\baselineskip}
\centerline{\char"E030}
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Small capitals if available, normal (large) capitals if not
In French, it is customary to typeset centuries and other numbers in Roman numerals in small capitals if available, or normal (large) capitals if not. If I use \textsc{vi} to typeset "6", I risk it ...
