Alternative (lowercase) list-of headings for small caps in TOC

Question

Suppose we were using small caps (rather than, e.g., bold face) to format a sectioning level in our TOC, say, section.

Consequently, we would use the appropriate alternative spelling of the section titles, to make sure the TOC entries will appear in small-caps only (rather mixed with upper-case letters, which looks clumsy) -- as, so far, there's no such thing as an upper- or lower-case command that can be used functionally identically to (and in combination with) the text style commands we already have (there's no \lcshape\scshape).

\section[lorem ipsum]{Lorem Ipsum}

But how to proceed with things like the names of \listoffigures and the likes? What would be the most elegant way to patch them before they get written to the TOC file?

\documentclass[listof=totoc]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tocstyle,blindtext}

\settocfeature[toc][1]{entryhook}{\normalfont\scshape}

\setkomafont{section}{\normalfont\itshape}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\section[lorem ipsum]{Lorem Ipsum}
\blindtext

\begin{figure}
  \dots
  \caption{\dots}\label{fig1}
\end{figure}

\blindtext

\listoffigures

\end{document}

samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-05T20:31:44.137

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With \MakeLowercase you could automatically make your sections titles for the toc lowercase without manually specifying a short title.

\documentclass[listof=totoc]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tocstyle,blindtext}

\settocfeature[toc][1]{entryhook}{\normalsize\scshape\MakeLowercase}

\setkomafont{section}{\normalfont\large\itshape}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\section{Lorem Ipsum}
\blindtext

\begin{figure}
  \dots
  \caption{\dots}\label{fig1}
\end{figure}

\blindtext

\listoffigures

\end{document}

Thanks to @DavidCarlisle for pointing out the advantages of \MakeLowercase compared to \lowercase!

edited Jul 05 '18 at 20:31

answered Jul 05 '18 at 20:09

samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz

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that's indeed the result I'm looking for. I can't believe I wasn't aware of \lowercase, or rather of the fact that it can be used that conveniently in this specific situation. Will run a real-world test to see how robust it is. I expect problems with certain characters (ligatures, German "ß" et al.), but in my current situation, that will certainly suffice. – Nils L Jul 05 '18 at 20:15
@NilsL \MakeLowercase is the latex command wrapping \lowercase and will do the right thing (more often) with accented characters etc – David Carlisle Jul 05 '18 at 20:18
yes, I'm aware of \MakeLowercase and how it works, but I guess implementing it for the purpose at hand will be a bit more tricky. – Nils L Jul 05 '18 at 20:21
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@DavidCarlisle Do you want to post a \MakeLowercase answer? I'll happily delete my answer. – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jul 05 '18 at 20:21
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@samcarter no, but you could edit yours:-) – David Carlisle Jul 05 '18 at 20:26
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@NilsL why tricky? You can just replace \lowercase by \MakeLowercase in the above answer. – David Carlisle Jul 05 '18 at 20:27
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@DavidCarlisle Edited - Thanks for your comments! – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jul 05 '18 at 20:34
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+1 for the excellent suggestion to use \MakeLowercase :-) – David Carlisle Jul 05 '18 at 20:36
the \MakeLowercase solution breaks as soon as hyperref comes into play. But \lowercase seems to work well even in a fairly complex project I'm working on. – Nils L Jul 06 '18 at 06:31

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '20 at 20:27

Actually I wrote a little package for this use case: lccaps. It basically does what samcarter's answer does. (One minor difference is that it uses \MakeTextLowercase, thus being a little more robust, one could say.) The solution then looks a little more compact any case:

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass[listof=totoc]{scrartcl}
  \setkomafont{section}{\normalfont\itshape}
\usepackage{lccaps}
\usepackage{tocstyle}
  \settocfeature[toc][1]{entryhook}{\textlcc}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\section*{Lorem Ipsum}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Lorem Ipsum}
\blindtext    
\listoffigures
\end{document}

Alternative (lowercase) list-of headings for small caps in TOC

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