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Usage[edit]

This template shows all text in Template:Smallcaps as a hard format. That is, the caps are permanent, regardless of user preferences. For example:

The template performs two steps: bare text is changed into uppercase, and it is shown in small caps.

Difference from Template:Tlx[edit]

The Template:Tlx template is for soft formatting, which is more often what is desired. There are three differences between the templates:

1. All input text is shown in Template:Smallcaps, not just the lowercase input. Compare:

Note that the initial full capitals are gone.

2. The bare, unstyled text is changed into uppercase. This is relevant for non-CSS browsers, and when one copy-pastes the page. Compare:

3. To maintain initial full capitals, a second parameter is to be used. Doing this has no effect on how text is displayed in non-CSS browsers and with copy-paste. Example:

Usage[edit]

Main article: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Acronyms and initialisms

This template should only be used for words, such as acronyms, that should be capitalized regardless of typographic style. Examples are TEMPLATE:SMALLCAPS and TEMPLATE:SMALLCAPS, which are stylistic variants of NASA and BC/AD.

It should not be used for things that are not inherently capitalized, such as the use of small caps to distinguish given from family names, because it makes the capitalization permanent, and the reader cannot override it. In such cases, the template {{smallcaps}} should be used instead.

Examples

To lighten ALL-CAP words, abbreviations, or acronyms, as a matter of typographic style

If the template is placed outside a link, it will capitalize the link itself, so in some cases it needs to be placed inside the link.

For the special case of transliterating [[tetragrammaton|YTEMPLATE:SMALLCAPS]] as the Template:Lord, as in the King James Bible, there is a dedicated template, {{LORD}}.

See also[edit]

Templates that change the display (copy-paste will get the original text):

Magic words that rewrite the output (copy-paste will get the text as displayed):

  • {{lc:}} – lower case output of the full text
  • {{uc:}} – upper case output of the full text
  • {{lcfirst:}} – lower case output of the first character only
  • {{ucfirst:}} – upper case output of the first character only
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