I have extremely limited time, so I prioritise what I look for in
editing. Please see this article for my attitude on the subject.
http://www.jeanweber.com/about/grammartrap.htm
Regards, Jean
Lou Iorio wrote:
As I say, I'm not trying to be difficult. If my comments are not
welcome, I will leave the list.
The Chicago Manual of Style does give a brief mention of sentence style
capitalization with
regard to table captions, but not to titles. The words "completely
legitimate" do not appear
in the text. I'm 100% sure.
Your unsubstantiated statistics of "99+%" (twice) carry no weight with
me. Neither does your
"waste of time" argument. It takes no more time to get titles right than
it does to get any
other writing right. It would be easier to avoid capitalization (and
punctuation for that matter)
in all writing, but that would be wrong.
I can certainly live with your rules; I was simply looking for
justification. I have seen none
yet.
Best regards,
Lou
