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|    Evelyn C. Leeper to All    |
|    AKICIF: Capitalizing Book Titles    |
|    16 Jan 26 11:31:29    |
      From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com              In 2010, the Academia Real EspaƱola declared that 'ch' and 'll' were no       longer letters in their own right, but digraphs (like 'ph' in English).       As such words with 'ch' would be alphabetized after 'cg' and before       'ci', and those with 'll' would have that between 'lk' and 'lm'.              I personally think this was because computers could not handle them as       single letters, and sort algorithms in particular would just break.              So my question is, when will style manuals decide that book titles and       such will have every word capitalized, and drop the exceptions of all       the "short words" (e.g., a, an, the, by, of, ...)? I forget what word       length I learned should be capitalized, but the rule now seems to be       four letters or longer.              I ask because every editor's capitalization command seems to just       capitalize every word.              (The rule about two spaces between sentences seems to have fallen by the       wayside years ago.)              --       Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn       Golden ages always shine more brightly from a distance. --Jack Shafer              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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