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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 August 5

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    When a name with either prefix occurs in all upper-case context of any kind, including a headline, lowercase the c or ac; if lowercase type is unavailable use small capitals: MACARTHUR, MCCLELLAN. Alphabetize such names as if all the letters were lowercase: Mabley, MacAdam, Maynard, McNeil. So that addresses both issues as far as American usage.

  3. Small caps - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Alternating caps - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. Letter case - Wikipedia

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    The lower-case "a" and upper-case "A" are the two case variants of the first letter in the English alphabet.. Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.

  6. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

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    In printing this is known as sentence case, where the first letter of the sentence is capitalized, and all others are lower case with the exception of proper nouns. In printing, normal sentence case may be substituted by UPPER CASE or " all caps " (all letters are capitalized), and Title Case (where the first letter of each word is capitalized).

  7. Case sensitivity - Wikipedia

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    The lowercase "a" and uppercase "A" are the two case variants of the first letter in the English alphabet. In computers. letters are treated as distinct (case-sensitive) or equivalent (case-insensitive). For instance, when users interested in learning about dogs search an e-book, "dog" and "Dog" are of the same significance to them. Thus, they ...

  8. Template:Allcaps - Wikipedia

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    Lowercase conversion, small-caps display, all uppercase. The size of lowercase letters. Uses: Stressed syllables (in {}); and ???. Warning: Default use will permanently change UPPER-or Mixed-Case data, does not work consistently across different browsers, and is not compatible with named HTML character entities.

  9. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Lower case: Put text in lower case caps: Capitalize: Put text in capital case sc: Small caps: Put text in small caps wf: Wrong font: Put text in correct font wc/ww: word choice/wrong word: Incorrect or awkward word choice hr # Insert hair space: s/b: should be: Selection should be whatever edit follows this mark s/r: substitute/replace: Make ...