From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: a question of form
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:28:59 -0700
Date: 2014-08-28T11:28:59-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ltnsdb$jtn$2@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ltn5d3$4s6$1@dont-email.me>
On 08/28/2014 04:56 AM, G.B. wrote:
>
> What will be the most wanted (and least controversial)
> words for title case exception in English and other natural
> languages?
>
> (I'm collecting them for a patch of Ada mode for Emacs,
> which makes Good_and_Bad appear automatically.)
In /The Elements of Grammar/ by Margaret Shertzer:
"Capitalize all principal words (that is, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs,
verbs, and first words) in titles"
The rule I learned is: Capitalize the first and last word of a title; capitalize
all other words except articles and short conjunctions and prepositions. "Short"
is usually defined as less than 4 letters.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-25 20:33 a question of form gdotone
2014-08-25 20:56 ` Simon Clubley
2014-08-25 22:08 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-08-26 1:06 ` gdotone
2014-08-26 7:04 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-08-26 17:31 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-08-27 5:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-27 7:17 ` AdaMagica
2014-08-28 11:56 ` G.B.
2014-08-28 13:23 ` Simon Wright
2014-08-28 14:08 ` G.B.
2014-08-28 19:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-28 20:19 ` Simon Wright
2014-08-28 20:48 ` Simon Wright
2014-08-28 18:28 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2014-08-28 19:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-29 11:55 ` G.B.
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