Cèṭa'an:Smallcaps/doc

Fiddler's Green forever |- |Cèṭa'an:Y|| {{Green|1=in {{Smallcaps|Fiddler's Green}} forever}} || in Fiddler's Green forever |- |Cèṭa'an:Y|| {{Colors|green|yellow|3=in {{Smallcaps|Fiddler's Green}} forever}} || in Fiddler's Green forever |- |colspan=3 align=center| When your text uses a | pipe, use | as you would need to do in any template parameter value: |- |Cèṭa'an:Y|| {{Smallcaps|Before|afteR}} || Before|afteR |- |colspan=3 align=center| When your text uses a link: |- |Cèṭa'an:N|| [[{{Smallcaps|Mao}} Zedong]] || [[Mao Zedong]] |- |Cèṭa'an:Y|| [[Mao Zedong|{{Smallcaps|Mao}} Zedong]] || Mao Zedong |}

Note that most of these uses are not sanctioned by the WP: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:

To lighten ALL-CAPS surnames mandated by citation styles such as Harvard

Note that this template should not be used inside CS1 or CS2 citation templates, such as {{cite book}} or {{citation}}; see #Notes above for details and alternatives.

• Piccadilly has been compared to "a Parisian boulevard" (Dickens 1879).
• Dickens, C. Jr (1879). "Piccadilly" in Dickens's Dictionary of London. London: C. Dickens.[1]

To disambiguate Western names and surnames at a glance

• Many Hispanic names are tricky to decompose:
  • Jorge Luis Borges, but Adolfo Bioy (both filed under "B")
  • José Álvarez, Marqués de los Trujillos
• And many Hispanic names are better known by their second surname:
  • Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Federico García Lorca, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
• Many names (Martín, Miguel, Ramón, Tomás, etc.) can be either forename or surname:
  • Juan Martín Hernández vs. Rafael Martín Vázquez (two ball players)
• Hungarian names natively use the surname-first order:
  • Petőfi Sándor is usually westernized Sándor Petőfi

To disambiguate Eastern surnames and given names at a glance

• Most Chinese names and Korean names retain their surname-first order:
  • Mao Zedong fought Chiang Kai-shek
  • The movie Oldboy by Park Chan-wook starring Choi Min-sik was not seen by Kim Il Sung

Especially in Hong Kong and Macao, a Western given name may be added as well:

• Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing

• Most Japanese names are reversed in the West, but not all:
  • (Akira Kurosawa or Motojirō Kajii are usually westernized)
  • But Matsuo Bashō, Ono no Komachi, Kaga no Chiyo (haiku poets known under their given name)
  • But Edogawa Ranpo (kept due to wordplay with "Edgar Allan Poe") vs. Ranpo Edogawa (some modern uses)
• Burmese names ignore the concept of forename/surname, but are adapted in the West:
  • Daw Aung San 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 Nu ("Mister Nu"), a.k.a. Thakin Nu ("Master Nu")

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 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON" 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 {{Smallcaps}}.

Comparison of the case transformation templates

Template	Shortcut	Purpose	Example	Output	Copy-pastes as
{{Smallcaps}}	{{sc1}} {{SC}}	No conversion, small-caps display, mixed case. No font size change (acronyms are unaffected). Common mixed-case heading style (not in Wikipedia). Uses: Rendering publication titles in citation styles that require them in small-caps.	{{sc1|UNICEF}} and 312 {{sc1|BCE}} {{sc1|Mixed Case}}	Citation Style 1 and 312 Citation Style 1 Citation Style 1	UNICEF and 312 BCE Mixed Case
{{Smallcaps2}}	{{sc2}}	No conversion, small-caps display, mixed case. Slightly reduced font size. This is the conventional display of smallcaps for acronyms/initialisms in modern book typography. Other uses: Unicode character names.	{{sc2|UNICEF}} and 312 {{sc2|BCE}} {{sc2|Mixed Case}}	UNICEF and 312 BCE Mixed Case	UNICEF and 312 BCE Mixed Case
{{Smallcaps all}}	{{sc}}	Lowercase conversion, small-caps display, all uppercase. The size of lowercase letters. Uses: Stressed syllables (in {{Respell}}); and ???. : Default use will permanently change Cèṭa'an:Xtn or Cèṭa'an:Xtn data, does not work consistently across different browsers, and is not compatible with named HTML character entities.	{{sc|UNICEF}} and 312 {{sc|BCE}} {{sc|Mixed Case}}	Cèṭa'an:Sc and 312 Cèṭa'an:Sc Cèṭa'an:Sc	unicef and 312 bce mixed case (in many browsers)
{{Allcaps}}	{{caps}}	No conversion, all-caps display. The size of uppercase letters. Uses: ???.	{{caps|UNICEF}} and 312 {{caps|BCE}} {{caps|Mixed Case}}	Cèṭa'an:Caps and 312 Cèṭa'an:Caps Cèṭa'an:Caps	UNICEF and 312 BCE Mixed Case
{{Nocaps}}		No conversion, all-lowercase display. The size of lowercase letters. Uses: ???.	{{nocaps|UNICEF}} and 312 {{nocaps|BCE}} {{nocaps|Mixed Case}}	UNICEF and 312 BCE Mixed Case	UNICEF and 312 BCE Mixed Case

Templatedata

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Smallcaps in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Smallcaps

Displays the lowercase part of inputted text as small caps

Parameter templat

Templat ini lebih menyukai format parameter dalam satu baris.

Parameter		Keterangan	Jenis	Status
Text	1	Text to be rendered in small caps	Kata	wajib diisi

See also

• {{Smallcaps2}}