{capitalization} is about letters being UPPER CASE (also called majuscules or capitals) or lower case (miniscules), changing one into the other, or determining which one letters are. A special case of capitals are small caps, which have their own tag {small-caps}.
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Acronym at sentence start: capital or not?
The recommended way of typesetting acronyms is using small caps, e.g.:
This technique is called Remote Procedure Calling or {\scshape rpc}.
However, if the acronym occurs at the beginning of the ...
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auto-capitalise the output of a newcommand
How can I create a newcommand that automictically capitalises the first letter, when the command is used after a full stop (or question mark, exclamation mark, etc.)?
\newcommand{\tinycommand}{tiny ...
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Duplicate entries in index when using lowercase [duplicate]
I'm trying to create an index for my thesis and I have a custom command that outputs the index term inline and adds it to the index as well. I want to ignore spaces of terms so I issue a \lowercase to ...
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biblatex: Preserve capitalisation in inproceedings/booktitle
I'm using Biblatex-APA/Biber with LyX and a Bibtex-file produced from Mendeley. I can produce bibliographies without any problem, but I would like to change the reference style for ...
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cleveref: \lcnamecref fails to work with theorem names that are not pre-defined
I'm using cleveref with the capitalise option, and I'd like to use the \lcnamecref command to give the name of one of my theorems in the text. But if this is not one of the theorem types pre-defined ...
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Converting Text to Title Case [duplicate]
is there a way to automatically format a text in title-case? Something like typing:
\somemagiccommand{the table, the ass and the stick}
which would yield:
The Table, the Ass and the Stick
I have ...
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How to use soul with glossaries to space-out acronyms?
I want to increase the spacing between capital letters of acronyms inside text. Acronyms are printed by \ac, \acs, etc. commands of the glossaries package. soul package provides a nice command \caps. ...
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New command to create a new type of citation
I defined a new command to an specific type of citation:
\newcommand{\apud}[4]{\citeauthor{#1} \mkbibparens{\citeyear{#1},\space{#2} apud \cite{#3},\space{#4}}}
That produce this output:
Carnap ...
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biblatex: uppercase in \parencite, but not in \textcite
How can I make \parencite produce an uppercase output, but normal case for \textcite?
Result:
\parencite{CARNAP1934} -> (CARNAP, 1934)
\textcite{CARNAP1934} -> Carnap (1934)
MWE:
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Set some letters in a title of a cited article majuscule [duplicate]
I use abbrvnat as bib style: \bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}. It seems that all the letters, except the 1st one, in the title field of an article are set systematically in minuscule (lowercase). But ...
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why does text change to all lowercase letters? [duplicate]
in my .bib file I have a citation
@article{IEEstd1,
title={a12312... - IEEE Standard for ...
why does it appear like this in generated pdf
a12312... - ieee Standard for ...
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Towards a \ucshape and \textuc command for uppercase text (XeTeX, LuaTeX)
While we have \textit and \textsc, \itshape and \scshape etc., there's no \textuc and \ucshape to typeset its argument in uppercase. There is \MakeUppercase, but -- as uppercase is not a font style -- ...
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How to get BibLaTeX-chicago use title case capitalization?
According to the 16th version of the Chicago Manual of Style, titles in the reference list are now supposed to be capitalized in title case style rather than sentence casing. Yet, as far as I ...
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Lower case in section title
I am quite newbie in LaTeX. Following examples in other questions for using lower case in titles, I tried to mimic them without success, when applying it to a section:
I am working in LyX2.0.
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In fancyhdr, ensure every letters in chapter/title names are in lowercase
In designing novels, (Document-class Book KOMA SCRIPT) I prefer to use all-small-caps in the running heads. Please find the first example, where both howards end and chapter 29 were all set in ...