Template:Smallcaps/doc

Usage
  will display the lowercase part of your text as typographical. You can most especially use this template for name/surname disambiguation in lead sections, and all-caps words or pronounceable acronyms.


 * Code    :
 * Displayed:
 * Pasted  : Your Text in 4004 bc

Your source text is not altered in the output, only the way it is displayed on the screen: a copy-paste of the text will give the small caps sections in their original form; similarly, an older or non-CSS browser will only display the original text on screen. This can be seen as a problem, solved with sc.

Reasons to use small caps
Small caps are useful for encyclopedical and typographical uses including:


 * To lighten ALL-CAPS words or pronounceable acronyms
 * The biblical "The LORD" (instead of LORD or Lord) or "Lord " as written in some Bibles
 * The acronyms UNESCO (instead of UNESCO or Unesco) or UNICEF
 * The trademark Time (magazine) (instead of TIME or Time)
 * To lighten ALL-CAPS surnames mandated by citation styles such as Harvard
 * Piccadilly has been compared to "a Parisian boulevard" ( 1879).
 * , C., Jr (1879). "Piccadilly" in Dickens's Dictionary of London. London: C. Dickens.
 * To disambiguate Western names and surnames at a glance
 * Many Hispanic names are tricky to decompose:
 * Jorge Luis, but Adolfo (both filed under "B")
 * José, Marqués de los Trujillos
 * And many Hispanic names are better known by their second surname:
 * Pablo, Federico , Emir , José Luis
 * Many names (Martín, Miguel, Ramón, Tomás, etc.) can be either forename or surname:
 * Juan Martín vs. Rafael  (two ball players)
 * Hungarian names natively use the surname-first order:
 * Sándor is usually westernized Sándor
 * To disambiguate Eastern surnames and names at a glance
 * Most Chinese names and Korean names retain their surname-first order:
 * Zedong fought Kai-shek
 * The movie Oldboy by Chan-wook starring  Min-sik was not seen by  Il-sung
 * Most Japanese names are reversed in the West, but not all:
 * (Akira or Motojirō  are usually westernized)
 * But Bashō,  no Komachi,  no Chiyo (haiku poets known under their given name)
 * But Ranpo (kept due to wordplay "EdgarA–llanPoe) vs. Ranpo  (some modern uses)
 * Burmese names ignore the concept of forename/surname, but are adapted in the West:
 * Daw Aung San, daughter of General Aung San ("Daw" is honorific, her name take 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 ("Mister "), AKA Thakin  ("Master ")

Technical
Technically, the template merely wraps the standard:



(The "font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase" has not been used because it doesn't work at least in Internet Explorer 5 and 6, which are still fairly common browsers.)