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Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
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]
In modern computer browsers, this may be achieved with a combination of HTML and CSS by using the float: left; setting. An alternate CSS-only method can instead use the :first-letter pseudo-element. An example of this format is the following paragraph:
The shapes of the uppercase letters in "O" and "R" and the lowercase letter "a" are slightly irregular. It has a double-story lowercase letter "g" with an angled stem instead of the single-story letter, as in Helvetica, and the uppercase letter "G" is rounded and has no spur. Little swing tail of uppercase letter "R".
First defined in CSS level E: an element of type E: 1 E: link: an E element that is the source anchor of a hyperlink whose target is either not yet visited (:link) or already visited (:visited) 1 E: active: an E element during certain user actions: 1 E:: first-line: the first formatted line of an E element: 1 E:: first-letter: the first ...
A later "advance" allowed longer variable names to be used for human comprehensibility, but where only the first few characters were significant. In some versions of BASIC such as TRS-80 Level 2 Basic, long names were allowed, but only the first two letters were significant. This feature permitted erroneous behaviour that could be difficult to ...
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 ...
These letters can be added to the class of the base letter, and can stay together whether they are the first or second character in a pair: (a à á â), (e è é ê), etc. A letter cannot be included in the class if its kerning is different from the others in certain pairs (for example, Yá vs. Yä).