{small-caps} is about the use and provision of small capitals: uppercase (capital) characters set at the same height as lowercase characters (usually 1ex).
small-caps is about the use and provision of small capitals: uppercase (capital) characters set at the same height as lowercase characters (usually 1ex).
Typical questions include the correct use of small caps; which font sets provide small caps and solutions when a chosen or mandated font does not have a small caps font included by default; whether and how to handle special cases such as small caps in mathmode, bold, slanted and italic.
There is a Wikipedia article on small caps.
There are a few different ways to achieve this effect in LaTeX.
- The command
\textsc{…}will convert letters into small caps. {\scshape…}acts as a switch to turn small caps on within a group of braces; in particular, it can combine with other formatting switches.\scis deprecated. Don't use it.
Note that there's no \mathsc command, unlike other kinds of formatting.
