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Date:      Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:40:28 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: CfR: config chapter changes
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202152036120.38645@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120216033525.GD1837@glenbarber.us>
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Glen Barber wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:24:52PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
>>> I'm not sure this "about" should be capitalized.  I may be wrong, but I
>>> do not believe prepositions should be capitalized in titles like this
>>> unless they are the first word of the title.
>>
>> Or, in AP style, if they are longer than four letters.
>
> Yes, that's what I was looking for, but my Google-fu failed.  I seem to
> recall that prepositions, even if exceeding four letters, are still not
> capitalized in AP.  I'm happy to be wrong though.

There's some reference to the various styles here:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/capitalizing-titles.aspx

igor kind of checks for AP title capitalization style, for no better 
reason than it seemed not too hard to program the basic rules.



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