[Tex/LaTex] How to make a Palatino TITLE in small caps

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I want my Palatino article font to be written with small caps. How do? So far I have

\setlength{\droptitle}{-4\baselineskip} % Move the title up
\pretitle{\begin{center}\Large\scshape\bfseries} % Article title formatting
\posttitle{\end{center}} % Article title closing formatting
\title{Collision Theory and Rutherford Scattering}

But the \scshape in the \pretitle is doing nothing, I just end up with regular lower case characters. However, for my section titles, I have nearly the same thing:

\titleformat{\section}[block]{\large\scshape\centering}{\thesection.}{1em}{}

(note the \scshape) and this works fine.

Best Answer

Palatino is obsolete (no smallcaps, doesn't manage maths fonts). You should use mathpazo instead, which uses a Palatino-clone, URW Palladio (has smallcaps and (faked?) bold smallcaps, but no slanted small caps). Even better, load newpxtext and newpxmath, based on TeXGyrePagellaX which has all 4 smallcaps and exist in OpenType format.

With newpx:

 \documentclass{article}
\usepackage[largesc]{newpxtext}
\usepackage{newpxmath}
% \usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{titling, titlesec}
\usepackage{slantsc} 

\setlength{\droptitle}{-4\baselineskip} % Move the title up
\pretitle{\begin{center}\Large\scshape\bfseries} % Article title formatting
\posttitle{\end{center}} % Article title closing formatting
\title{Collision Theory and Rutherford Scattering}

\titleformat{\section}[block]{\large\scshape\centering}{\thesection.}{0.5em}{}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{A test section}

Normal font.

 \textbf{\textsc{Bold Small Caps}}

\textit{\scshape Italic Small Caps}

\end{document}

With mathpazo:

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All things being equal, you're probably using Computer Modern Roman, not because iopart has loaded it, but because it's the default used if you don't explicitly specify any other. (Your pdf reader can confirm this for you. Usually all you need do is open the document then, depending on the reader, looking in Properties / Fonts. Look for fontnames like 'CMR10' (CM 10pt roman) and 'CMCSC10' (CM 10pt small caps).)

There are many solutions to your problem. Apart from explicitly rescaling your lining figures as Niel points out (tho take care that 'faking' small caps doesn't run you into, say, untoward kerning issues), two of the easiest are these:

If you wish to stay with computer modern, use \oldstylenums to convert normal "lining" (uppercase) figures to "oldstyle" ("text" or lowercase) figures. E.g., \textsc{fp}\oldstylenums{6}. Note, however, that some CMR oldstyle figures look less like osf than you might want (the digit '6' happens to be one of these).
Alternatively, you might prefer the look and feel of the oldstyle figures offered by different fonts. However, not every font offers these natively (i.e., you might need to apply the \oldstylenums command when using most other non-CMR fonts).

Here's some code that might help to check out many of the rather few fonts that open up text figures. Assuming each font is actually loaded on your system, one by one just uncomment and recomment each of the commented lines below, compiling each to see which look and feel you most prefer. Note, however, that this technique typesets all figures in your document in oldstyle. Nevertheless, it means you won't need to apply the \oldstylenums command at any time.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

%\usepackage[sc,osf]{mathpazo}   % Palatino with pazo math fonts
%\renewcommand*\rmdefault{pplx}  % Palatino with lining (uppercase) nums
%\renewcommand*\rmdefault{pplj}  % Palatino with text (lowercase or oldstyle) nums

%\usepackage[osf]{venturis}
%\usepackage[osf]{libertine}
%\usepackage[osf]{MinionPro}
%\usepackage[fulloldstylenums]{kpfonts}

\begin{document}
\textsc{fp9876543210}
9876543210
\end{document}

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You could try using the recently-released newpxtext and newpxmath packages. In the MWE below, issuing the command \useosf after the math-related packages are loaded enables the use of regular- and bold-weight oldstyle numerals in text mode, while lining numerals will be used in math mode. Small caps are available in bold (as well as regular-weight, of course).

Update April 2018: The newpxtext and newpxmath packages have evolved quite a bit over the past five years. One can still enable oldstyle numerals and small-caps letters by running \useosf. According to the packages' user guide, though, the preferred way is to specify the option osf while loading the newpxtext package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{newpxtext,newpxmath}
\useosf % old-style figures in text, not in math
\linespread{1.05} % Palatino needs a bit more leading than CM
\begin{document}
0123456789, {\bfseries 0123456789}, {\itshape 0123456789}, {\bfseries\itshape 0123456789}

\textsc{Once upon a time, \dots}
{\bfseries \scshape Once upon a time, \dots}

Some math expressions: $1+1=2$,  $\int_0^1 \mathrm{d}x = 1$
\end{document}

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