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Synopsis:
\uppercase{text} \lowercase{text} \MakeUppercase{text} \MakeLowercase{text}
Change the case of characters. The TeX primitives commands
\uppercase
and \lowercase
only work for American
characters. The LaTeX commands \MakeUppercase
and
\MakeLowercase
commands also change characters accessed by
commands such as \ae
or \aa
. The commands
\MakeUppercase
and \MakeLowercase
are robust but they have
moving arguments (see \protect).
These commands do not change the case of letters used in the name of a
command within text. But they do change the case of every other
Latin letter inside the argument text. Thus,
\MakeUppercase{Let $y=f(x)$
} produces ‘LET Y=F(X)’. Another
example is that the name of an environment will be changed, so that
\MakeUppercase{\begin{tabular} ... \end{tabular}}
will
produce an error because the first half is changed to
\begin{TABULAR}
.
LaTeX uses the same fixed table for changing case throughout a document, The table used is designed for the font encoding T1; this works well with the standard TeX fonts for all Latin alphabets but will cause problems when using other alphabets.
To change the case of text that results from a macro inside text
you need to do expansion. Here the \Schoolname
produces
‘COLLEGE OF MATHEMATICS’.
\newcommand{\schoolname}{College of Mathematics} \newcommand{\Schoolname}{\expandafter\MakeUppercase \expandafter{\schoolname}}
The textcase package brings some of the missing feature of the
standard LaTeX commands \MakeUppercase
and
\MakeLowerCase
.
To uppercase only the first letter of words, you can use the package mfirstuc.