What are the rules you've been told about which words should be capitalised
in titles? Many usage books now favour minimal capitalisation - where you
only capitalise the first word and any proper nouns or other words normally
capitalised - and I've been following this recently. However, some people
still want to use the older scheme where you capitalise only "major" words
- though there seems to be different ideas about which words are "major".
I decided to write a macro that I could run to apply this type of
capitalisation and tried to make a list of all the words that wouldn't be
capitalised. This is my initial list:
"the", "a", "an", "of", "and", "or", "but", "to", "is", "for", "from",
"with", "after", "before", "if", "in", "on", "over", "under", "by",
"that", "which", "who", "until", "till", "your", "my", "his", "her",
"hers", "their", "as", "so".
I think some people want to capitalise all verbs, so I'd have to remove
"is", but that looks silly to me. Anyone got any other ideas?
Howard
