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Questions tagged [capitalization]

{capitalization} is about letters being UPPER CASE (also called majuscules or capitals) or lower case (miniscules), 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}.

is about letters being UPPER CASE (also called majuscules or capitals) or lower case (miniscules), changing one into the other, or determining which one letters are. A special case of capitals are small caps, which have their own tag .

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Converting Text to Title Case

is there a way to automatically format a text in title-case? Something like typing: \somemagiccommand{the table, the ass and the stick} which would yield: The Table, the Ass and the Stick I have searched the internet but have found nothing that…
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Capitalize first letter of a defined variable

I'm trying to capitalize the first, and only the first letter of line which I have defined as \mytext. I've used {\MakeUppercase put text here?}... until now. But now I have it as a variable \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \def \mytext…
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Turkish characters to uppercase

I can't make uppercase of turkish characters like Giriş Tex converts it to GIRIş instead of GİRİŞ.. It's making me crazy. %this is mwe i…
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Automatically capitalize first letters of words in titles?

Is there a way to tell LaTeX to automatically capitalize the first letters of words in chapters and sections? I imagine something that checks a dictionary for words like for, of, the, in ... and leaves them small (if it's not the first word). 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 lower case. How do I fix this? Here is an…
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How to write the capital letter form of "è"

I would like to write the capital letter form of "è"; many people suggest to do it by typing \'E which gives the accent in the opposite direction from left to right. How can I get the capital letter "è" with the accent that points to the left?
Federico Gentile
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Capitalising first letter of each word in section headings using book class

I would like to convert the fist letter of each word in all my section headings to capitals automatically. Is it possible? ie \section{This is my first section} Section 1. This Is My First Section
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Package mfirstuc \capitalisewords doesn't work correctly

I Declared this in the class file \newcommand{\fullname}[1]{\gdef\@fullname{#1}} With \fullname{john doe} I am trying to get the fullname on class file. The \MakeUperrcase{\@fullname} works, but the \capitalisewords doesn't. I have…
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Use of \lowercase

If I write: \documentclass[a4paper]{report} \begin{document} \lowercase{Norma} \end{document} I get "norma" in the output, lowercased as I want it. However, if I write: \documentclass[a4paper]{report} \expandafter\def\csname…
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Capitalization of references

This question is probably beyond the scope of just TeX, but certainly interesting to many. When referencing a figure, a lemma, or an equation in a paper, is there a general rule of whether or not to capitalize the respective identifier,…
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How to protect the case of a letter?

Simple task here: I want to use the \MakeUppercase{} command, but I have some text that must be protected to remain lower case. Specifically, elemental symbols (e.g. PbI\textsubscript{2}, where the 'b' needs to remain lower case. Is there some way…
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Capitalise certain words in document

I have a very large set of documents where some keywords are not always spelled correctly. Is is possible to tell latex to always write certain words in a certain way? (in this case it'd be to capitalise them, but i may consider adding \emph or…
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Capital first letter after a period

I expected latex to automatically display the first letter after a period in uppercase, as I'm used to in MS Word, but turns out it doesn't, and I can't find anyone mentioning this on the internet nor all the latex documentations I checked. I'd…
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What is the upper case variant to \scshape etc.?

I have read on https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Fonts that there is no variant of \scshape for upper case. Also there seem to be problems with upper case that are addressed by the textcase package. However, using its \MakeTextUppercase does not…
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\autocap command is not working

The following command is just a shortcut to avoid me to write two very long words I use often. I would like to capitalize the first letter of the first word at the beginning of a sentence. \newcommand{\es}{\autocap{e}dslqk dlqsmd} However \es text.…
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