Small caps in section titles
chri_s...@yahoo.com
In order to have all abbreviations in the same style, I
have changed the latex file to include macros like
"Quantum electrodynamics is usally abbreviated \pac{QED}."
\section{Adavnced \pac{QED} and more}
etc.
I thought the following definition would do:
\def\pac#1{{\expandafter\scshape\lowercase{#1}}}
But this only works in the text. In the section title, this
really bombs latex. How can one improve this?
Thank you in advance,
Christoph
Morten Høgholm
Bombs in what way? Usually one would define this as
\newcommand*\pac[1]{\MakeLowercase{\scshape#1}}
rather than using the TeX primitive lowercase. I'm not surprised you don't
see what you like in section headers since very few fonts have boldface
small caps, so naturally it doesn't work. I would probably try something
like
\usepackage{relsize}
\makeatletter
\DeclareRobustCommand*\pac[1]{%
\if b\expandafter\@car\f@series\@nil
% we're using a bold font
\textscale{.75}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}%
\else
\MakeLowercase{\scshape #1}%
\fi}
\makeatother
assuming that you're using a scalable font of course.
--
Morten
Donald Arseneau
> \section{Adavnced \pac{QED} and more}
That must be very advanced.
> \def\pac#1{{\expandafter\scshape\lowercase{#1}}}
The \expandafter does nothing. Get rid of it.
Fragile command (\scschape) in a moving argument, so declare
\protect\scshape or use \textsc instead or define \pac with
\DeclareRobustCommand.
In LaTeX you should use \MakeLowercase instead of \lowercase
(unless you are sure of strictly simple ascii letters.)
I find small-caps too small for acronyms.
--
Donald Arseneau as...@triumf.ca
Morten Høgholm
> Fragile command (\scschape) in a moving argument, so declare
> \protect\scshape or use \textsc instead or define \pac with
> \DeclareRobustCommand.
The font changing commands are not fragile - I think the only problem was
that these acronum thingies weren't in small caps in the section headings.
--
Morten
Malte Rosenau
The most elegant solution would be to include lowercase small caps in
LaTeX's font selection scheme...
Robin Fairbairns
>chri_s...@yahoo.com schrieb:
>> In order to have all abbreviations in the same style, I
>> have changed the latex file to include macros like
>>
>> "Quantum electrodynamics is usally abbreviated \pac{QED}."
>>
>> \section{Adavnced \pac{QED} and more}
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> I thought the following definition would do:
>>
>> \def\pac#1{{\expandafter\scshape\lowercase{#1}}}
there's been plenty of discussion of this macro. i find that cm alone
(of the font families i use from time to time) needs acronyms in any
other than full-size caps.
>> But this only works in the text. In the section title, this
>> really bombs latex. How can one improve this?
>
>The most elegant solution would be to include lowercase small caps in
>LaTeX's font selection scheme...
what exactly do you mean? there already is a small caps shape; it's
accepted that (at least) the shape and weight (or something) axis
ought to have been separated -- is that what you're worried about?
in fact, a different sort of font selection is probably needed, if
we're going to change it at all; merely tacking another axis what we
have at present is likely to satisfy no more than those who are
shouting the loudest just now.
--
Robin (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) Fairbairns, Cambridge
Malte Rosenau
> Malte Rosenau <mro...@gwdg.de> writes:
>
>>chri_s...@yahoo.com schrieb:
>>
>>>In order to have all abbreviations in the same style, I
>>>have changed the latex file to include macros like
>>>
>>>"Quantum electrodynamics is usally abbreviated \pac{QED}."
>>>
>>>\section{Adavnced \pac{QED} and more}
>>>
>>>etc.
>>>
>>>I thought the following definition would do:
>>>
>>>\def\pac#1{{\expandafter\scshape\lowercase{#1}}}
>
>
> there's been plenty of discussion of this macro. i find that cm alone
> (of the font families i use from time to time) needs acronyms in any
> other than full-size caps.
>
>
>>>But this only works in the text. In the section title, this
>>>really bombs latex. How can one improve this?
>>
>>The most elegant solution would be to include lowercase small caps in
>>LaTeX's font selection scheme...
>
>
> what exactly do you mean? there already is a small caps shape; it's
> accepted that (at least) the shape and weight (or something) axis
> ought to have been separated -- is that what you're worried about?
No, I'm not worried about that. I'm not a big fan of bold and italic
small caps anyway. What I need is a new set of font metrics for 'all
lowercase small caps' (for an example see the chapter headings in
Bringhurst's 'Elements'). With Koma classes I can do something like
\addtokomafont{sectioning}{\scshape}
but I can't put \MakeLowercase in that definition (for obvious reasons).
Malte
Jellby
> I thought the following definition would do:
>
> \def\pac#1{{\expandafter\scshape\lowercase{#1}}}
>
> But this only works in the text. In the section title, this
> really bombs latex. How can one improve this?
I did a similar thing. The problem I found was that finding a font with true
italic and bold smallcaps was not that easy. Finding a serif and a
sans-serif font with matching math symbols was even harder. At the end, I
resorted to the "relsize" package and I just defined:
\usepackage{relsize}
\newcommand{\acro}[1]{\ifmmode\mathsmaller{#1}\else\textsmaller{#1}\fi}
The \acro{QM/MM} term is $\hat{H}_{\text{\acro{QM/MM}}}$.
which doesn't give the best result, but it was better than anything I could
get with \scshape or with full-size caps (it looked better to me, anyway).
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