Template:Small-caps/doc

Usage

This template simplifies formatting text in Small caps, where lowercase letters are replaced with smaller capital letters. {{sc}} may be used for shorthand; the broad usage of this template has made an abbreviated version convenient.

Example

{{small-caps|Small caps}}
{{sc|Small caps}}

Small caps

Misuse for capitalisation

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

* {{small-caps|this is incorrect. grammatically, there should be capitals in this sentence.}}
* {{x-smaller|THIS IS CORRECT. IT IS CAPITALS, BUT IN A SMALLER FONT}}
* {{all small caps|This is also correct. It is the "small-caps" variant but the text is not all lowercase when copied.}}

• this is incorrect. grammatically, there should be capitals in this sentence.
• THIS IS CORRECT. IT IS CAPITALS, BUT IN A SMALLER FONT
• This is also correct. It is the "small-caps" variant but the text is not all lowercase when copied.

While it may look similar, the first one has problems:

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

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.

See also

• {{All small caps}} or {{asc}}, which presents both upper and lower case as 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