On Friday, 1 July 2016, Bob T <bob.trussler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
