Is there a package that automatically tells LaTeX to use small-caps for the first few words (say, three) in a chapter/section/subsection?
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[Tex/LaTex] First few words of a chapter/section in small-caps
small-caps
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At his homepage, Markus Kohm, the author of KOMA-script, has code for majuscle in section headings.
I have slightly adapted the code from Versalien in \section und \subsection?)
\documentclass[11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{MinionPro}
\renewcommand{\scdefault}{ssc} % MinionPro's spaced small caps as standard
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\Section}{}
\let\Section\section
\renewcommand*{\section}{%
\@ifstar {\star@section}{\@dblarg\nonstar@section}%
}
\newcommand*{\star@section}[1]{%
\Section*{\MakeLowercase{#1}}%
}
\newcommand*{\nonstar@section}[2][]{%
\Section[{#1}]{\MakeLowercase{#2}}%
}
\let\Subsection\subsection
\renewcommand*{\subsection}{%
\@ifstar {\star@subsection}{\@dblarg\nonstar@subsection}%
}
\newcommand*{\star@subsection}[1]{%
\Subsection*{\MakeLowercase{#1}}%
}
\newcommand*{\nonstar@subsection}[2][]{%
\Subsection[{#1}]{\MakeLowercase{#2}}%
}
\setkomafont{disposition}{\normalcolor\scshape}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{Heading level 1}
\subsection{Heading level 2}
\end{document}
This solution works with starred sections. And it is easy to add more formatting by using the normal:
\setkomafont{level}{command}
\addtokomafont{level}{command}
I will also suggest that you use the package textcase to make the case changes more fool proof:
\usepackage[overload]{textcase}
Here is a comparison of the available Times-like fonts in TeX distributions:
I believe that Times small caps are a later addition, and they depend on how the font designers thought best. My preference goes to the smaller variant, to be honest.
Note that mathptmx uses rather large small capitals because it has no real small caps font and the small capitals are reduced size capital letters, so the developer of the virtual font chose not to make them too small, since this would show much clearly the fake.
Best Answer
Not that I'm aware of. You can use the magaz package to make the whole first line small caps, or you could write a command like this:
Then if you need more/fewer words just change the number of parameters in
\scwords. (It doesn't seem worth the hassle to write an iterating version.)Making this happen automatically is a little more difficult.