“is” should definitely be in your list, but I’m not certain whether “after” or
“before” should be in the list. Sometimes I think it depends on the size of the
word too and how it looks. I know that’s not very consistent.
Dora
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Great idea Howard.
Anything To Avoid The US Style Of Capitalising Every Word In A Title.
Bob T
On 1 July 2016 at 14:24, Howard Silcock
<howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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
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Bob Trussler
