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Subject:Re: Initial Caps & Title Caps...What's the Diff? From:joemiller -at- canberra -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:29:59 -0400
Lynne Jaynes said:
> These terms seem interchangeable.
Speaking only for myself, yes, they're the same thing. Initial caps
is the term that's been used by printers, typesetters, proofreaders
and editors since shortly after the earth cooled. I suspect that
title caps was introduced, probably by Microsoft, as an alternative to
the arcane printer's commands.
(Which reminds me of an old computer game... You are in a maze of
twisty little DOS commands, all alike... <g>)
Regards,
Joe Miller
Senior Editor
Canberra Industries, Inc.
(Connecticut, USA)
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