capitalizationmacrosstrings
I tried to use \uppercase in \newcommand:
\newcommand\universidad{My University}
\newcommand\Universidad{\uppercase{\universidad}}
When I use it I get this,
My University
and not, as expected, this
MY UNIVERSITY
Why?
I can't use \MakeUppercase because I need use latin quote, example: ingeniería. And this latin case has problems with \MakeUppercase
You can make use of the XeTeX character class mechanism, which allows to insert tokens into the input stream based on user-defined character classes. In this case, we define a new class for uppercase letters and prepare code to be inserted before and after these letters:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
% Our font for uppercase letters
\newfontfamily\upfont[Ligatures=TeX,Color=FF0000]{Latin Modern Roman}
\XeTeXinterchartokenstate=1
\newXeTeXintercharclass \uppercaseclass
% Assign the new class to all Latin capital letters
\makeatletter
\@tempcnta=`\A
\loop\unless\ifnum\@tempcnta>`\Z
\XeTeXcharclass \@tempcnta \uppercaseclass
\advance \@tempcnta by 1
\repeat
\makeatother
% Setup font change
\XeTeXinterchartoks 0 \uppercaseclass = {\begingroup\upfont}
\XeTeXinterchartoks \uppercaseclass 0 = {\endgroup}
\XeTeXinterchartoks 255 \uppercaseclass = {\begingroup\upfont}
\XeTeXinterchartoks \uppercaseclass 255 = {\endgroup}
\begin{document}
Once Upon a Time, there was a Beautiful Princess\ldots
\end{document}
The mechanism is described in the XeTeX reference.
well, i've figured out why chapterbib causes the running heads to be uncapitalized.
amsbook depends on these definition for all running heads:
\def\partrunhead#1#2#3{%
\@ifnotempty{#2}{\uppercase{\ignorespaces#1 #2\unskip}\@ifnotempty{#3}{. }}%
\def\@tempa{#3}%
\ifx\@empty\@tempa\else
\begingroup \def\\{ \ignorespaces}% defend against questionable usage
\uppercasenonmath\@tempa\@tempa
\endgroup
\fi
}
\let\chapterrunhead\partrunhead
\let\sectionrunhead\partrunhead
notice where the \uppercasenonmath is applied. the relevant marks are produced from #3 in this process.
chapterbib redefines the way these marks are set, as
\csname#2mark\endcsname{\bibname}
buried deep within the definition of \sectionbib (which defines the behavior for a chapter as well as for a section) so in effect the amsbook definition isn't applied at all (for the bibliography) when chapterbib is used.
it looks like the most expedient way to get uppercased running heads for the references is to intervene after \begin{thebibliography} (in the .bbl file). your code
\markboth{\MakeUppercase{\bibname}}{\MakeUppercase{\bibname}}
will work as intended there.
an alternative approach would be to get rid of uppercasing entirely, by redefining \partrunhead to omit \uppercasenonmath and then reiterating the two \let statements.
i haven't investigated whether natbib.sty redefines how the running heads are set, but it probably does.
Best Answer
With both
latin1andutf8encodings I get correct output fromThe problem with your definition is that
\uppercaseacts on the token list\universidadand doesn't do nothing, because at that level there's no letter to be uppercased;\universidadis expanded only later. With\expandafterwe perform the expansion before\MakeUppercasecomes into action.Just as an exercise, here is a macro
\Capitalizethat takes as argument a control sequence and defines its "uppercase variant"After this magic code you can say
will define also
\Universidadand\Facultadthat will print "UNIVERSIDAD DE LUGAR" and "INGENIERÍA".Note that
\MakeUppercasedoes not go along with hyperref, so in case you use these commands where this package extracts something for building bookmarks you should give it a safe token list; for exampleand, in the automatic defining command, change the line
into
In case one's using
utf8x, the definitions must be preceded by\PrerenderUnicode:The
\Capitalizemacro could beso that
\PrerenderUnicodeis performed automatically when needed.