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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 26, 2017, 05:14:22 pm ---If you're asking in a literal rather than oxymoronic sense, then yes. They are using all caps but in a smaller font than the surrounding type.
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Yes, I did mean that literally rather than oxymoronically. (I have to deal with lots of small caps in my work.)
--- Quote ---And I've since approached a part of the article that suggests it -- the article's content, not the caps issue -- becomes more dramatic and less dutiful as it goes along.
Also, I should add that I could never be an embedded war correspondent for the New Yorker, weird acronyms or no, or for any other publication.
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I found it a compelling read. And I couldn't be an imbedded correspondent, either. Not for anything.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 26, 2017, 06:02:27 pm ---Yes, I did mean that literally rather than oxymoronically. (I have to deal with lots of small caps in my work.)
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In what context(s) do you use them? Would you stick them amid a larger font when writing an acronym?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 26, 2017, 08:58:41 pm ---In what context(s) do you use them? Would you stick them amid a larger font when writing an acronym?
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In a general way, I might say that whether I would use the small caps in a larger font might depend on the point size. In something like SWAT, small caps certainly save space.
Small caps are used a lot in medical-scientific writing, and we use them for "a.m." and "p.m.," rather than lower case. I think we might get that from the American Medical Association style book.
serious crayons:
Interesting.
At both of my jobs, we follow Associated Press style. At my medical-device job, we follow American Psychological Association style for citations, but pretty much everything else, including times of day, are AP style. We do occasionally use % in a headline or table for the sake of clarity and brevity, although AP oddly insists on spelling out percent.
The New Yorker clearly follows none of the above, though maybe it's sort of close to Chicago Style? I don't know -- I'm less familiar with that one.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 27, 2017, 10:11:48 am ---Interesting.
At both of my jobs, we follow Associated Press style. At my medical-device job, we follow American Psychological Association style for citations, but pretty much everything else, including times of day, are AP style. We do occasionally use % in a headline or table for the sake of clarity and brevity, although AP oddly insists on spelling out percent.
The New Yorker clearly follows none of the above, though maybe it's sort of close to Chicago Style? I don't know -- I'm less familiar with that one.
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The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, the edition we have in our offices, doesn't prescribe caps or small caps, except in specialized usages. It does say, however, that when caps are wanted for emphasis, "Small caps rather than full capitals look more graceful" (7.50). Chicago 15 seems geared more to how and when to use small caps if your style is to use small caps.
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