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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 ...
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.
Technically, the template is a wrapper for: font-variant: small-caps. A potential alternative CSS approach, font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; , has not been used because it is implemented inconsistently in browsers: it copy-pastes as the original text in Firefox, but as the altered text in Chrome, Safari, Opera, and text-only ...
Suppressing small caps. If you wish to suppress the display of small caps in your browser, as a logged-in user, you can make an edit to your common.css reading: body. mw-parser-output span. smallcaps {font-variant: normal;} If you wish to avoid the size change: body. mw-parser-output span. smallcaps-smaller {font-size: inherit;}
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]
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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).
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