Library of Formatting Examples:Small Caps/00B

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   They may be compared to the early monastic chronicles of the
   Middle Ages. Writing was practised in Rome as early as the sixth
   century <sc>B. C.</sc> and there can be no doubt that the names of consuls
   or their substitutes were recorded from the early years of the republic,
   although the form of the record is unknown. It is in the annals

All small caps

The letters in "B. C." look like capital letters, but they are about the height of the surrounding normal lower-case letters, and are shorter than the capital letters in "Middle Ages;" that's why they're called "small caps." The small-caps in this example are one size, so they're not "mixed small-caps" and must be formatted as all upper-case (as shown), and enclosed in small-caps markup tags. If the book uses actual all upper- or all lower-case, do not mark it.