Template:Smallcaps/doc

will display the lowercase part of your text as a soft format of typographical. For example: ? .

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.

in small caps, use (a.k.a. ) instead.

Usage
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    :
 * Displayed: 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.

this template cannot be used in citation templates like to small-cap the author names, or titles of works, in citations styles that call for such typography. See "Notes", below for details.

Suppressing small caps

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: normal !important; }

Code examples
Note that most of these uses are not sanctioned by the Manual of Style and should be avoided in article prose. <!--

Reasons to use small caps
Small caps are useful for encyclopedic and typographical uses including:

Note that this template should not be used inside CS1 or CS2 citation templates, such as cite book or citation; see above for details and alternatives.
 * To lighten ALL-CAPS surnames mandated by citation styles such as Harvard
 * Piccadilly has been compared to "a Parisian boulevard" ( 1879).
 * , C., Jr (1879). "Piccadilly" in Dickens's Dictionary of London. London: C. Dickens.
 * To disambiguate Western names and surnames at a glance
 * Many Hispanic names are tricky to decompose:
 * Jorge Luis, but Adolfo (both filed under "B")
 * José, Marqués de los Trujillos
 * And many Hispanic names are better known by their second surname:
 * Pablo, Federico , Emir , José Luis
 * Many names (Martín, Miguel, Ramón, Tomás, etc.) can be either forename or surname:
 * Juan Martín vs. Rafael  (two ball players)
 * Hungarian names natively use the surname-first order:
 * Sándor is usually westernized Sándor
 * To disambiguate Eastern surnames and given names at a glance
 * Most Chinese names and Korean names retain their surname-first order:
 * Zedong fought Kai-shek
 * The movie Oldboy by Chan-wook starring  Min-sik was not seen by  Il-sung
 * Especially in Hong Kong and Macao, a Western given name may be added as well:
 * Leslie Kwok-Wing

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 * Most Japanese names are reversed in the West, but not all:
 * (Akira or Motojiro  are usually westernized)
 * But Basho,  no Komachi,  no Chiyo (haiku poets known under their given name)
 * But Ranpo (kept due to wordplay with "Edgar Allan Poe") vs. Ranpo  (some modern uses)
 * Burmese names ignore the concept of forename/surname, but are adapted in the West:
 * Daw Suu Kyi, daughter of General 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 ("Mister "), a.k.a. Thakin  ("Master ")
 * 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 " 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 Latin Capital ....