[texhax] Automatically caps

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

"Rodolfo Medina" <romeomedina at libero.it> asks on Wed, 28 May 2003 16:06:27 +0200:

>> Does there exist a way (a command or else) to make plain TeX write down in
>> capital letters, in the output file, a word which was written in small letters
>> in the source file?

Certainly:

% cat uc.tex
\uppercase{This is a test.}
\bye

% tex uc.tex

% dv2dt uc.dvi | grep '('
(THIS)
(IS)
(A)
(TEST.)
(1)

See the TeXbook, pp. 41 and 279.

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