amsartcapitalizationtitles
I am writing an article with amsart.cls. amsart.cls capitalizes the title of the article. I looked into amsart.cls and found that \MakeUppercase is used in \maketitle. I tried to turn off this, but I could not. As for the author, I could turn off it. Is there any clues?
I am running TeX Live 2011 on an opensuse12.1 Linux box. amsart.cls is dated 2009, July.
While amsart uses smallcaps for section headings, it actually uses (full) capitals for \author and \title. Note that a title argument given in upper- and lowercase will produce capitals which are all of the same height.
The following MWE redefines the formatting in a way that only affects \author, \title and \section:
\documentclass{amsart}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@settitle}{\uppercasenonmath\@title}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\@setauthors}{\MakeUppercase}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\section}{\scshape}{}{}{}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\author{Author, A.}
\title{And now for something completely different}
\maketitle
\section{A section}
Some text.
\end{document}
You could use \MakeLowercase:
\documentclass{amsart}
\title{Topics on \MakeLowercase{de} R\MakeLowercase{ham} cohomology}
\author{The Author}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}
I am not sure about using lowercase for the last name; perhaps
\title{Topics on \MakeLowercase{de} Rham cohomology}
could be better?
Best Answer
You could define an environment, which disables uppercasing for a certain scope, such as:
And in the document:
After closing the environment, those temporarily disabled commands are working again, since the environment limits the scope of these redefinitions.
If you ever need to disable further uppercasing commands, such as
\MakeUppercase, simply extend the environment.