Questions tagged [capitalization]
{capitalization} is about letters being UPPER CASE (also called majuscules or capitals) or lower case (minuscules), 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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\Cref does not capitalise the first letter of "esempio"
I am writing my document in Italian, using the package polyglossia. "Esempio" is the Italian word for example, while "proposizione" means proposition. Whenever I have an example or ...
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Capitalizing title in reference key
The current format for the reference key in Bibtool has the form Author:Date:Abc for the title 'All but comedy'. How do I change the key so that the Abc is capitalized, ie ABC instead of Abc?
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\MakeLowercase in \section
I need to have a single lower case letter in the section command. The general advice that I have found repeatedly here is to use \MakeLowercase. However, the following extremely simple example already ...
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Dynamically create a new environment with an uppercased argument
I'm using amsthm to create theorems. Whenever I create a new theorem (using \newtheorem), I need to create an alternative environment, with the same name but an uppercase first letter. For example, I ...
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How to capitalize only the FIGURE + figure number in figure titles
I want to only capitalize the figure title as "FIGURE I". I have the below code on Figures. Any help would be appreciated \usepackage[font=bf]{caption} \renewcommand{\thefigure}{\Roman{...
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Applying a Little Artificial Intelligence to a Patched Titlecaps Algorithm
This question is based on @StevenB.Segletes' patch for titlecaps found here: Reformatting a Paragraph Consisting Entirely of Capital Letters Consider the code: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \...
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Issues with Apostrophes and Mixed-Case Sentences Using mfirstuc Package
I'm using the mfirstuc package for sentence case formatting and encountering two problems: Capitalizing Phrases with Apostrophes: I need phrases with apostrophes to be correctly capitalized, where ...
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Reformatting a Paragraph Consisting Entirely of Capital Letters
Consider the code: \documentclass[12pt]{book} \parskip 15pt \begin{document} \thispagestyle{empty} \large THIS IS A PARAGRAPH WHOSE SENTENCES CONTAIN WORDS COMPRISED OF CAPITAL LETTERS. THIS IS A ...
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Biblatex and French elision in particles
When dealing with French authors who have a particle de, there is an inconsistency in treatment when the vowel is elided. Everything works as expected when the de is followed by a consonant, as in de ...
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Capitalise only first letter in list of symbols list using glossaries-extra package
I want to have the first letter of the list of "Symbols, Greek Letters, Sub- & Superscripts" also capitalised per default. With the acroym list "Abbreviations and Acronyms" it ...
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Why does combination of packages cause capital T and F to be smaller than rest of alphabet?
Today I came across a phaenomen I still don't understand, even after multiple hours of investigation. A certain combination of packages and settings causes the capital T and F to be smaller then the ...
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Applying \MakeUppercase on \makebox makes text disappear
Here is a MWE of the problem: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \makebox[4cm][l]{This is a test.} \MakeUppercase{\makebox[4cm][l]{This is a test.}} \end{document} Which results in: The logs ...
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Is it possible to redefine the limit operator to print Lim, not lim?
The default limit operator displays “lim” with a small l. I wish to redefine it to display “Lim” that is, with a capital L like shown below.
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biblatex: capitalize ß to ẞ, not SS, in bibliographies
I am using a biblatex style that capitalizes authors' last names in the bibliography (ISO960, i.e. style=iso-authoryear). When an author's last name includes a ß, this gets capitalized to SS, but I ...
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All Caps with Commands
I am trying to set some text in all caps (not small caps) using the \uppercase command. Part of the text is variable and stored in a separate command, but that portion of the text is being set in ...
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