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|    Evelyn C. Leeper to All    |
|    AKICIF: Capitalization Question    |
|    27 Oct 24 12:38:53    |
      From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com              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?              --       The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept cheering and voting       for the axe. Because its handle was made of wood, and they       thought it was one of them. [@Strandjunker on Mastodon]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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