{"id":431,"date":"2008-09-08T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:29:07","slug":"title-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/431","title":{"rendered":"Title Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title case is the way that the capitalisation is done for titles of things like songs, books and articles. Having had a hunt around, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a good definition on how it should be done. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Title_case#Headings_and_publication_titles\">Wikipedia<\/a> describes a range of rules but doesn&#8217;t come down in favour of any of them except to say that it is not fashionable among publishers. Even so, if you are producing, say, a list of albums and songs for a media centre then it looks a lot better if you are consistent and, as the article points out, it is easier to automate rather than using sentence case and trying to spot the proper nouns.<\/p>\n<p>The best rules I can come up with are&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start with a capital.\n<\/li>\n<li>Capitalise after spaces but not other punctuation.\n<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t capitalise any one or two letter words (except I) nor certain three letter words:&mdash;and, but, for, the, via &amp; others for foreign languages (e.g. les, des).\n<\/li>\n<li>Like all good rule sets there are always exceptions but these have to be done by hand.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title case is the way that the capitalisation is done for titles of things like songs, books and articles. Having had a hunt around, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a good definition on how it should be done. Wikipedia describes a range of rules but doesn&#8217;t come down in favour of any of them except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}