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Usage
 , named after small caps, is a more robust and consistent WYSIWYG extension of Smallcaps, backward-compatible in syntax and results. It will rewrite your text using typographical small caps. This template is especially useful for name/surname disambiguation in lead sections, and to lighten all-caps words or pronounceable acronyms.

Contrary to, the text will still show the disambiguated "Adolfo BIOY CASARES" (instead of "Adolfo Bioy Casares") in:


 * A copy-pasted version of the text.
 * A degraded version displayed by a non-CSS browser, or one whose CSS has been disabled, or portable devices such as mobile phones.
 * An excerpt as displayed in the results of search engines such as Google.

This preserves the benefit of small caps where they were judged useful.

In this case, the pasted/degraded/excerpted text will retain proper theological caps (instead of the erroneous "The Lord God was the Lord in 4004 bc" that would give.)

Code examples
Note: some of the "wrong" examples would actually work when used outside of a table, but it is preferable to know and use codes that will work everywhere instead.

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 the King James Bible and such
 * 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 given 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 "), a.k.a. Thakin  ("Master ")

Technical code
Technically, any call such as:



Will result in the very same code:



That is:


 * in the odd segments
 * in the even segments

The "font-size:80%" displays a capital at the same height than those generated by "font-variant:small-caps". (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.)