Template:Small-caps
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Usage
This template simplifies formatting text in Small caps, where lowercase letters are replaced with smaller capital letters. {{sc}} may be used for shorthand; the broad usage of this template has made an abbreviated version convenient.
Example
{{small-caps|Small caps}}
{{sc|Small caps}}
Small caps
Misuse for capitalisation
The use of this template to simulate smaller capitalised text is semantically incorrect:
* {{small-caps|this is incorrect. grammatically, there should be capitals in this sentence.}}
* {{x-smaller|THIS IS CORRECT. IT IS CAPITALS, BUT IN A SMALLER FONT}}
* {{all small caps|This is also correct. It is the "small-caps" variant but the text is not all lowercase when copied.}}
- this is incorrect. grammatically, there should be capitals in this sentence.
- THIS IS CORRECT. IT IS CAPITALS, BUT IN A SMALLER FONT
- This is also correct. It is the "small-caps" variant but the text is not all lowercase when copied.
While it may look similar, the first one has problems:
- It copy-pastes as lowercase text, because the CSS only affects styling, not the content.
- Viewers that do not handle the CSS used for small-caps (font-variant) will display the text as all lowercase.
The template {{all small caps}} can be used to request the special small-caps glyphs (generally slightly proportionally wider than simply making the font smaller) for all letters, uppercase or lowercase, without having the text copy-paste as lowercase.
See also
- {{big small-caps}} which produces big text Small-caps
- {{Center Small Caps}}, {{csc}} which produces centered Small-caps
- {{Font-variant normal}} to remove small caps in the middle of a span (for example in a template which produces a small-caps line)
- {{sm}} which produces standard small text
- {{Small-caps block}} to formats text block in Small caps.
- {{All small caps}} or {{asc}}, which presents both upper and lower case as small-caps.
Format text as small-caps. See also {{All small caps}}.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | The text to format as small caps | String | required |