Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/doc
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{{Smallcaps}}
will display the lowercase part of most text as a soft format of typographical Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.small caps.
For example: {{Smallcaps|Beware of Dog}}
→ Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Beware of Dog.
The template works for most scripts that have casing, with the exception of half of the Greek alphabet (namely the unaccented letters α β γ δ θ λ μ ρ σ (but not ς) φ χ ω). In addition, the accents in Greek ΐ ΰ are badly placed: Tɛmplet:Sc1.
This template should be avoided or used sparingly in articles, as the Manual of Style advises that small caps should be avoided and reduced to one of the other title cases or normal case, and that markup should be kept simple.
Smallcaps should not be used for the abbreviations BC, AD, BCE, CE, etc., per MOS:ERA, even though they are used in the examples below.
For display of acronyms/initialisms in small caps, use {{Smallcaps2}}
(a.k.a. {{sc2}}
) instead.
Usage[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]
This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS. |
Your source text is not altered in the output, only the way it is displayed on the screen: a copy-paste of the text will give the small caps sections in their original form; similarly, an older or non-CSS browser will only display the original text on screen.
- Code
{{Smallcaps|Utada}} Hikaru
- Displayed
- Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Utada Hikaru
- Pasted
- Utada Hikaru
This template is therefore intended for the use of caps as a typographic style, such as rendering family names in bibliographies in small caps to distinguish them from given names. It should not be used for acronyms or abbreviations which are supposed to be capitalized regardless of style. For such cases, use {{Smallcaps2}}.
As of February 2016,[update] this template cannot be used in citation templates like {{Cite journal}}
to small-cap author names or titles of works in citation styles that call for such typography. See "Notes", below for details.
Technical notes[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]
- Diacritics (å, ç, é, ğ, ı, ñ, ø, ş, ü, etc.) are handled. However, because text formatting is performed by each reader's browser and fonts, inconsistencies in CSS implementations can lead to some browsers not converting certain rare diacritics.
- Use of this template does not generate any automatic categorization. As with most templates, if the argument contains an
=
sign, the sign should be replaced with {{=}}, or the whole argument be prefixed with|1=
. And for wikilinks, you need to use piping. There is a parsing problem with MediaWiki which causes unexpected behavior when a template with one style is used within a template with another style. - There is a problem with dotted and dotless I.
{{Lang|tr|{{Smallcaps|ı i}}}}
may gives you Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.ı ı, although the language is set to Turkish, unless the font including localized glyphs for small caps variant. - Do not use this inside Citation Style 1 or Citation Style 2 templates, or this template's markup will be included in the COinS metadata. This means that reference management software such as Zotero will have entries corrupted by the markup. For example, if {{smallcaps}} is used to format the surname of Bloggs, Joe in {{cite journal}}, then Zotero will store the name as
<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Bloggs</span>, Joe
. This is incorrect metadata. If the article that you are editing uses a citation style that includes small caps, either format the citation manually (see examples below) or use a citation template that specifically includes small caps in its formatting, like {{Cite LSA}}. - This template will not affect the use of HTML character entities like
. - 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 did not work in Internet Explorer 5 and 6, and it is implemented inconsistently in others: it copy-pastes as the original text in Firefox, but as the altered text in Chrome, Safari, Opera, and text-only browsers.
Suppressing small caps[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]
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:
span.smallcaps { font-variant-caps: normal !important; }
Examples[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]
Code | Display (screen) | |
---|---|---|
Tɛmplet:Y | {{Smallcaps|The ''Name'' of the 2nd Game}} | Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.The Name of the 2nd Game |
Tɛmplet:Y | Leonardo {{Smallcaps|DiCaprio}} (born 1974) | Leonardo Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.DiCaprio (born 1974) |
Tɛmplet:Y | José {{Smallcaps|Álvarez de Toledo y Gonzaga}} | José Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Álvarez de Toledo y Gonzaga |
Tɛmplet:Y | {{Smallcaps|Nesbø, Vågen, Louÿs, Zúñiga, Kabaağaçlı}} | Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Nesbø, Vågen, Louÿs, Zúñiga, Kabaağaçlı |
When your text uses an = sign: | ||
Tɛmplet:N | {{Smallcaps|You and Me = Us}} | Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.{{{1}}} |
Tɛmplet:Y | {{Smallcaps|You and Me = Us}} | Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.You and Me = Us |
Tɛmplet:Y | {{Smallcaps|You and Me {{=}} Us}} | Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.You and Me = Us |
Tɛmplet:Y | {{Smallcaps|1=You and Me = Us}} | Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.You and Me = Us |
When your text uses a template: | ||
Tɛmplet:N | in {{Smallcaps|Fiddler's {{Green{{!}}Green}}}} forever | Green}} forever |
Tɛmplet:Y | in {{Smallcaps|1=Fiddler's {{Green|Green}}}} forever | in Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Fiddler's Green forever |
Tɛmplet:Y | in {{Smallcaps|Fiddler's {{Green|Green}}}} forever | in Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Fiddler's Green forever |
Tɛmplet:Y | {{Green|1=in {{Smallcaps|Fiddler's Green}} forever}} | in Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Fiddler's Green forever |
Tɛmplet:Y | {{Colors|green|yellow|3=in {{Smallcaps|Fiddler's Green}} forever}} | in Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Fiddler's Green forever |
When your text uses a | pipe: | ||
Tɛmplet:N | {{Smallcaps|Before|afteR}} | Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Before |
Tɛmplet:N | {{Smallcaps|1=Before{{!}}afteR}} | afteR |
Tɛmplet:Y | {{Smallcaps|Before|afteR}} | Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Before|afteR |
When your text uses a link:[Table 1] | ||
Tɛmplet:N | [[{{Smallcaps|Mao}} Zedong]] | [[Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Mao Zedong]] |
Tɛmplet:Y | [[Mao Zedong|{{Smallcaps|Mao}} Zedong]] | Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Mao Zedong |
- ↑ As of May 2023, the preferred example fails due to flaws in Mediawiki (phabricator issue T200704) if there are no prior uses of
{{smallcaps}}
on the page outside links.
Note that most of these uses are not sanctioned by the WP:Manual of Style and should be avoided in article prose.
Reasons to use small caps[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]
Small caps are useful for encyclopedic and typographical uses including:
- To lighten ALL-CAPS surnames mandated by citation styles such as Harvard
Note that this template should not be used inside CS1 or CS2 citation templates, such as {{cite book}} or {{citation}}; see #Notes above for details and alternatives.
- Piccadilly has been compared to "a Parisian boulevard" (Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Dickens 1879).
- Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Dickens, C. Jr (1879). "Piccadilly" in Dickens's Dictionary of London. London: C. Dickens.[1]
- To disambiguate Western names and surnames at a glance
- Many Hispanic names are tricky to decompose:
- Jorge Luis Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Borges, but Adolfo Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Bioy (both filed under "B")
- José Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Álvarez, Marqués de los Trujillos
- And many Hispanic names are better known by their second surname:
- Pablo Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Ruiz Picasso, Federico Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.García Lorca, Emir Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Rodríguez Monegal, José Luis Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Rodríguez Zapatero
- Many names (Martín, Miguel, Ramón, Tomás, etc.) can be either forename or surname:
- Juan Martín Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Hernández vs. Rafael Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Martín Vázquez (two ball players)
- Hungarian names natively use the surname-first order:
- Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Petőfi Sándor is usually westernized Sándor Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Petőfi
- To disambiguate Eastern surnames and given names at a glance
- Most Chinese names and Korean names retain their surname-first order:
- Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Mao Zedong fought Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Chiang Kai-shek
- The movie Oldboy by Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Park Chan-wook starring Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Choi Min-sik was not seen by Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Kim Il Sung
- Especially in Hong Kong and Macao, a Western given name may be added as well:
- Leslie Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Cheung Kwok-Wing
- Most Japanese names are reversed in the West, but not all:
- (Akira Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Kurosawa or Motojirō Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Kajii are usually westernized)
- But Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Matsuo Bashō, Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Ono no Komachi, Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Kaga no Chiyo (haiku poets known under their given name)
- But Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Edogawa Ranpo (kept due to wordplay with "Edgar Allan Poe") vs. Ranpo Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Edogawa (some modern uses)
- Burmese names ignore the concept of forename/surname, but are adapted in the West:
- Daw Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of General Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Aung San ("Daw" is honorific, her name takes part of his name)
- And some Burmese names are so short they need to retain an honorific prefix (U for Mister, Daw for Madam, Thakin for Master) which is confusable with a forename or a surname:
- U Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Nu ("Mister Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Nu"), a.k.a. Thakin Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Nu ("Master Page Tɛmplet:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Nu")
- To cite Unicode character names correctly without unwanted emphasizing.
- Such names are required to be written in capitals by the Unicode standard. Use {{Smallcaps2}}, not {{Smallcaps}}, for this: In running text, "U+022A Tɛmplet:Smallcaps2" is a less visually distracting alternative to "U+022A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON". Unicode names should not be represented in mixed case, e.g. as {{Smallcaps}}.
Comparison of the case transformation templates[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]
Templatedata[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]
TemplateData for Smallcaps
Displays the lowercase part of inputted text as small caps
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Text | 1 | Text to be rendered in small caps | String | required |
See also[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]
- {{Smallcaps2}}