headinlines firstletter capitalized

[Christian Brueffer]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:17:02PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:09:23PM +0200, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
> > hi!
> > 
> > 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.
> 

I don't think we should do that.  We would have different headlines than
the original article, which is not good.
Quote the Manual of Style articles to the article authors instead :-)

Colin Parcival already quoted the according excerpt from the Manual of style
in another thread too.

- Christian

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