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<span id="g_t_0040sc_007btext_007d_003a-The-Small-Caps-Font"></span><h4 class="subsection">7.2.2 <code>@sc</code>{<var>text</var>}: The Small Caps Font</h4>
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<p>Use the ‘<samp>@sc</samp>’ command to set text in <small>A SMALL CAPS FONT</small>
(where possible). Write the text you want to be in small caps between
braces in lowercase, like this:
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<pre class="example">Richard @sc{Stallman} commencé GNU.
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<p>This produces:
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<pre class="display">Richard STALLMAN commencé GNU.
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<p>As shown here, we recommend reserving <code>@sc</code> for special cases
where you want typographic small caps; family names are one such,
especially in languages other than English, though there are no
hard-and-fast rules about such things.
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<p>TeX typesets any uppercase letters between the braces of an
<code>@sc</code> command in full-size capitals; only lowercase letters are
printed in the small caps font. In the Info output, the argument to
<code>@sc</code> is printed in all uppercase. In HTML, the argument is
uppercased and the output marked with the <code><small></code> tag to reduce
the font size, since HTML cannot easily represent true small caps.
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<p>Overall, we recommend using standard upper- and lowercase letters
wherever possible.
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