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9.2.2 '@sc'{TEXT}: The Small Caps Font
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Use the '@sc' command to set text in A SMALL CAPS FONT (where possible).
Write the text you want to be in small caps between braces in lowercase,
like this:

     Richard @sc{Stallman} commence' GNU.

This produces:

     Richard STALLMAN commence' GNU.

  As shown here, we recommend reserving '@sc' 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.

  TeX typesets any uppercase letters between the braces of an '@sc'
command in full-size capitals; only lowercase letters are printed in the
small caps font.  In the Info output, the argument to '@sc' is printed
in all uppercase.  In HTML, the argument is uppercased and the output
marked with the '<small>' tag to reduce the font size, since HTML cannot
easily represent true small caps.

  Overall, we recommend using standard upper- and lowercase letters
wherever possible.