MarkRogerson

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Again, welcome! 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 {{smallcaps|a.d.}} would leave the initials as lowercase. MarkRogerson (talk) 13:35, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

@MarkRogerson: In general throughout Wikisource, the syntax you are using, {{smallcaps|a.d.}}, is a common way to go about this; another common way is {{smaller|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 b.c. and a.d. use small caps (for example, {{sc|b.c.}})." —Beleg Tâl (talk) 13:44, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

@Beleg Tâl: 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)