From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 06:17:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5924616A4BF for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 06:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shaft.techsupport.co.uk (shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5161243FBF for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 06:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from cpc3-cdif2-5-0-cust222.cdif.cable.ntl.com ([81.101.152.222] helo=shrike.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by shaft.techsupport.co.uk with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD 4.9) id 1A9P2y-0005c3-Sz; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:17:09 +0100 Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD 4.9) id 1A9P2s-000Cw1-4W; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:17:02 +0100 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:17:02 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Josef El-Rayes Message-ID: <20031014131702.GM32124@submonkey.net> References: <20031014130923.GA333@jenny.daemon.li> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xA/XKXTdy9G3iaIz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031014130923.GA333@jenny.daemon.li> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: headinlines firstletter capitalized X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:17:18 -0000 --xA/XKXTdy9G3iaIz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:09:23PM +0200, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > hi! >=20 > i was wondering whether press article's headlines should have > capatalized first letters of each word or should it be the way it is > capatalized on the articles headline. Here's what the _Chicago Manual of Style_ says about capitalizing quoted titles (headline style): 7.127 In regular title capitalization, also known as headline style, the first and last words and all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinating conjunctions (if, because, as, that, etc.) are capitalized. Articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or for, nor), and prepositions, regardless of length, are lowercased unless they are the first or last word of the title or subtitle. The to in infinitives is also lowercased. Long titles of works published in earlier centuries may retain the original capitalization, except that any word in full capitals should carry only an initial capital. No word in a quoted title should ever be set in full capitals, regardless of how it appears on the title page of the book itself, unless it is an acronym, such as WAC, UNICEF, or FORTRAN. We should be using this universally, IMO. Ceri --=20 --xA/XKXTdy9G3iaIz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/i/dNocfcwTS3JF8RAs/FAJ9CWVbbf3guv4wItWCXUUVUx4fBgQCgjesp uWev3uj1QoVJBwiljrIwKo4= =zck8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xA/XKXTdy9G3iaIz--