User talk:MarkRogerson

Beeswaxcandle (talk) 19:32, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Abbreviations in small caps
Hi, in the Veii article of 1911 encyclopædia page I am working on ( Page:EB1911_-_Volume_27.djvu/997 ) there are A.D. and B.C. abbreviations where the text is formatted using small caps. In Wikipedia project I found a template called Smallcaps2 which I think is designed to handle this case where the source letters are already capitalised but should be displayed slightly smaller than a regular capital. However there is no Smallcaps2 template in Wikisource. I wondered if there is a Wikisource sepcific way to do this. For now I have left them as regular capitals because using would leave the initials as lowercase. MarkRogerson (talk) 13:35, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * In general throughout Wikisource, the syntax you are using,, is a common way to go about this; another common way is A.D. . The more important consideration is consistency in a given work. Since this is the Encyclopedia Britannica, I will point you to that project's style manual, which says: "Note that the abbreviations  and  use small caps (for example,  )." —Beleg Tâl (talk) 13:44, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, that is really helpful. I had started from the djvu page images rather than the project page — I need to spend some time reading the project's Style Manual! MarkRogerson (talk) 13:57, 11 May 2017 (UTC)