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  2. Alternating caps - Wikipedia

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    Alternating caps are typically used to display mockery in text messages. [1]The randomized capitalization leads to the flow of words being broken, making it harder for the text to be read as it disrupts word identification even when the size of the letters is the same as in uppercase or lowercase.

  3. Transformation of text - Wikipedia

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    The letter "a" will, in most typefaces using italic fonts, render it as a "one-story" Latin alpha, thus causing problems with any word using that letter as a lowercase "e." Oblique type does not have this problem. Below is a conversion table that can be used to transform lowercase, uppercase numeric and punctuation output.

  4. Small caps - Wikipedia

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    Small caps, petite caps and italic used for emphasis True small caps (top), compared with scaled small caps (bottom), generated by OpenOffice.org Writer. In typography, small caps (short for small capitals) are characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters but reduced in height and weight close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures. [1]

  5. Letter case - Wikipedia

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    The lower-case "a" and upper-case "A" are the two case variants of the first letter in the English alphabet.. Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.

  6. Capitalization - Wikipedia

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    The capital letter "A" in the Latin alphabet, followed by its lowercase equivalent, in sans serif and serif typefaces respectively. Capitalization (American spelling; also British spelling in Oxford) or capitalisation (Commonwealth English; all other meanings) is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case, in writing ...

  7. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters - Wikipedia

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    Result: Lowercase retained (uppercase possibly unintentional part of requested move) Talk:Landing Ship, Tank#Requested move 4 August 2024 – Six Landing Crafts and a Ship, Word Order and Capitalization of – Result : Not moved (capitalization not the primary focus of discussion)

  8. All caps - Wikipedia

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    All-capital print greatly retards speed of reading in comparison with lower-case type. Also, most readers judge all capitals to be less legible. Faster reading of the lower-case print is due to the characteristic word forms furnished by this type. This permits reading by word units, while all capitals tend to be read letter by letter.

  9. Letter (alphabet) - Wikipedia

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    During the fifth and sixth centuries, the development of lowercase letters began to emerge in Roman writing. At this point, paragraphs, uppercase and lowercase letters, and the concept of sentences and clauses still had not emerged; these final bits of development emerged in the late 7th and early 8th centuries. [6]