[mb-users] When English capitalization is wrong?
Todd O'Bryan
toddobryan at mac.com
Thu Dec 28 15:16:10 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 15:13 +0000, Chris Bransden wrote:
> On 28/12/06, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at mac.com> wrote:
> Many classical choral/vocal works have no real title, other
> than the
> first line (or even few words) of the text. In these cases,
> the almost
> universal practice is to capitalize them as they appear in the
> text, not
> as they would appear in a title:
>
> For unto us a child is born
> And the glory of the Lord
> Sing joyfully
> O vos omnes
>
> this format ("sentance case") is in fact the dominant capitilization
> style for the majority of track titles (in my experience). the style
> we use isn't neccesarily the most popular so i wouldn't worry too much
> about the fact that they are consistantly in sentence case. most
> titles are :P
But the Style Guide doesn't say anything about this. It just gives rules
for capitalization of English titles and doesn't say anything about
sentence case.
Todd
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