John Hostage said:
>As for capitalization, do the rules have to address this beyond saying
>to follow the usage of the language in question?
The examples follow no known practice, Only the article and first
word after the article are capitalized, not every major word as in
standard English.
Examples should follow one standard or another, not straddle two
standards as these do.
__ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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In English, everyone
>outside of libraries capitalizes every significant word of a title. In
>a future of more and more sharing of "metadata" from various sources,
>it's going to be harder and harder to enforce our eccentric rules.
>
>John Hostage
>Harvard Law School Library
>
>Renette Davis wrote:
>>
>> At 10:26 PM 6/20/2006, Mac Elrod wrote:
>>
>>> 6.2.1.2.1b.1 has in examples "The Dreamers", and "The Keepers". I
>>> don't recall a return to capitalizing first word after an initial
>>> article in earlier chapters on transcription. In fact, have we ever
>>> capitalized those words if the title were not the prime access point,
>>> as these are not?
>>
>> RD - If these are additional access points, shouldn't the initial article
>> be omitted because there is no filing indicator for 7xx subfield t. If a
>> system indexes 7xx subfield t in a title alphabetical browse index, it will
>> cause problems if there are initial articles present unless the non-filing
>> characters are used and recognized by the system.
>>
>
