Template:Small-caps/doc

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It contains usage information, categories, and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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Redirects

{{Small caps}}
{{Smallcaps}}

Shortcuts

{{Aut}}
{{SC}}
{{Sc}}

This template simplifies formatting text in small caps, where lowercase letters are replaced with smaller capital letters.

Usage

Example

{{Small-caps|Small caps}}

⇒ Small caps

Misuse for capitalization

The use of this template to simulate smaller capitalised text is semantically incorrect:

Example: Improper use

{{Small-caps|this is incorrect. grammatically, there should be capitals in this sentence.}}

⇒ this is incorrect. grammatically, there should be capitals in this sentence.

The problems here are:

It copy/pastes as lowercase text, because the CSS only affects styling, not content.
Viewers that do not handle the CSS used for small-caps (font-variant) will display the text as all lowercase.

Example: Acceptable use

{{X-smaller|THIS IS CORRECT. IT IS CAPITALS, BUT IN A SMALLER FONT}}

⇒ THIS IS CORRECT. IT IS CAPITALS, BUT IN A SMALLER FONT

Example: Also acceptable use

{{All small caps|This is also correct. It is the "small-caps" variant, but the text is not all lowercase when copied.}}

⇒ This is also correct. It is the "small-caps" variant, but the text is not all lowercase when copied.

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.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Small-caps

Format text as small-caps. See also {{All small caps}}.

Template parameters
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
1	`1`	The text to format as small caps	String	required