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Title capitalization

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From: John G Norman
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 19:50
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The BibTeX solution to title capitalization is to put
letters that should always be capitalized in curly braces.
This is OK, but requires users to massage their data after
importing from CD-ROM, library catalogs, etc.

There are really two kinds of capitalization:

1. Headline style. Most words (except articles, prepositions, etc.)
   are capitalized.

2. Sentence style. The first word and proper names are
   capitalized.

A good system would be for EndNote users to enter titles in
style #2 (Sentence). This is the form for many libraries and
databases. It is easy to write a routine to output in Style #1 if one
has a list of articles. (I have a list of such articles.) Converting
Headline to Sentence style automagically is more difficult;
you'd have to keep a list of proper names.

Ideally, EndNote would also know the articles for foreign languages.

Note to EndNote developers: YOUR COMPETITION DEALS WITH
CAPITALIZATION!!



While I'm at it, let me say that page numbers are a bad place in
EndNote. Different conventions require different things. If the
page span for an article is 100 to 101, some styles like 100-01,
others like 100-101, etc., etc. Other packages provide control
over this.
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From: jnorman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John G Norman)
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Subject: Title capitalization
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