I know there are lots of (punctuation and grammar) style geeks here, so
maybe someone can tell me:
Has the use of Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and others changed the rules
of capitalization for (e.g.) titles of shorter works? It used to be
that one would capitalize all the words except non-leading articles and >longer prepositions. (At least that's how I learned it.) So it would
be "Devil in a Blue Dress", but "The Man Without a Country".
Now when you're using a word-processing app, and ask for capitalization,
it capitalizes every word, e.g., "Devil In A Blue Dress", and "The Man >Without A Country".
Has any style manual endorsed this, or do I need to keep tweaking all my >transformations?
Now when you're using a word-processing app, and ask for
capitalization, it capitalizes every word, e.g., "Devil In A Blue
Dress", and "The Man Without A Country".
The IMDb and the film's posters (or the title card) do not always
agree. The current cover art/poster has "the" in lower case, but a
search of images shows some art with either capitalization, or "the"
in the same size font as the major words, while "and" and "of" are in
smaller type.
I know there are lots of (punctuation and grammar) style geeks here, so
maybe someone can tell me:
Has the use of Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and others changed the rules
of capitalization for (e.g.) titles of shorter works? It used to be
that one would capitalize all the words except non-leading articles and longer prepositions. (At least that's how I learned it.) So it would
be "Devil in a Blue Dress", but "The Man Without a Country".
Now when you're using a word-processing app, and ask for capitalization,
it capitalizes every word, e.g., "Devil In A Blue Dress", and "The Man Without A Country".
Has any style manual endorsed this, or do I need to keep tweaking all my transformations?
In article <vflqat$gk79$1@dont-email.me>, evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) wrote:
Now when you're using a word-processing app, and ask for
capitalization, it capitalizes every word, e.g., "Devil In A Blue
Dress", and "The Man Without A Country".
I recall back in 2005 when I was Hugo administrator, we listed the film
"Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow" with "The" capitalized. Someone
said that was wrong but we said it was what the film's publicity had it listed as. However, I now see that there is no capitalization in the
IMDb listing.
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