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Small caps, petite caps and italic used for emphasis True small caps (top), compared with scaled small caps (bottom), generated by OpenOffice.org Writer. In typography, small caps (short for small capitals) are characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters but reduced in height and weight close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures. [1]
Small caps " The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog " Similar in form to capital letters but roughly the size of a lower-case "x", small caps can be used instead of lower-case letters and combined with regular caps in a mixed-case fashion. This is a feature of certain fonts, such as Copperplate Gothic.
Displays the lowercase part of inputted text as small caps Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Text 1 Text to be rendered in small caps String required See also {{ Smallcaps2 }} The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Smallcaps/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template ...
Alternating caps, [1] also known as studly caps [a], sticky caps (where "caps" is short for capital letters), or spongecase (in reference to the "Mocking Spongebob" internet meme) is a form of text notation in which the capitalization of letters varies by some pattern, or arbitrarily (often also omitting spaces between words and occasionally some letters).
This text changes most letters, both upper and lower case, to small capitals, though half of the Greek alphabet is instead converted to lower case (namely the letters Α Β Γ Δ Θ Λ Μ Ρ Σ Φ Χ Ω and their accented forms apart from Ώ). With those exceptions, the text is hard-coded as upper case.
Latin Small Letter A with circumflex and tilde U+1EAC Ậ Latin Capital Letter A with circumflex and dot below U+1EAD ậ Latin Small Letter A with circumflex and dot below U+1EAE Ắ Latin Capital Letter A with breve and acute U+1EAF ắ Latin Small Letter A with breve and acute U+1EB0 Ằ Latin Capital Letter A with breve and grave U+1EB1 ằ
will display the lowercase part of most text as a soft format of typographical small caps. For example: {{Smallcaps|Beware of Dog}} → Beware of Dog. The template works for most scripts that have casing, with the exception of half of the Greek alphabet (namely the unaccented letters α β γ δ θ λ μ ρ σ (but not ς) φ χ ω).
Old English did not always make a distinction between uppercase and lowercase, and at best had embossed or decorated letters indicating sections. Middle English capitalization in manuscripts remained haphazard, and was often done for visual aesthetics more than grammar; in poetry, the first letter of each line of verse is often capitalized.