» >but its use » >may be completely determined by proper markup (end of sentence, proper » >noun, even in german, you'd identify substantives, etc.) » I see what you mean, but you're unfortunately wrong. Ahah ! » It is not in general » possible to determine whether a word is a proper noun or not if it appears » in a monocase environment, since quite a lots of proper nouns have once » been nonproper nouns. That's why I said _markup_: you don't hear caps when you speak a natural language, so that is not needed. Now the uc/sc/lc glyphs used on print (should) follow rather simple rules that are dictated by their nature, which could be specified by some markup, precisely as you'd prefer \vector{v} to have v rendered in whatever specific style you like for vectors. Something like natbib's \citeauthor could produce c&sc, \Name c&lc, etc. » Not that I think the subject is of much relevance, though. you said it! \Fistname{thierry} \Name{Bouche}, \Town{grenoble}.