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Usage
 , named after small caps was a variation on Smallcaps but has, since a deletion discussion been merged with the latter. Per MOS:TEXT (particularly MOS:BADEMPHASIS) and MOS:ACCESS, small caps should not be used for emphasis nor for disambiguating names in the ways for which was designed.

The way in which has been merged to smallcaps means that implementations should appear identical, but the copy/pasted text will no longer maintain the capitalisation (as that is the accessibility problem with this version of the template).

For smallcaps, in the few occasions where it should be used (see MOS:TEXT and MOS:BADEMPHASIS), please use smallcaps 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 ")

Suppressing small caps
If you wish to suppress the display of small caps in your browser, as a logged in user, you can make an edit to your common.css reading

span.smallcaps { font-variant: normal !important; }