Talk:Basic Book Design/Capitalizing Words in Titles

"Unless the first or last words of a title. these are never capitalized: articles: a, an, the conjuctions: and, but, or, not prepositions that are fewer than five letters long: at, by, for, from, in, into, of, off, on, onto, out, over (unless used as a verb), up, with infinitives: to "as" is never capitalized o'Clock (since it means "of the clock")"

clarify? --Remi (talk) 20:01, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Prepositions as "phrasal verbs"
Turn On or Turn Off or Give Up - I believe the words on, off and up aren't prepositions here at all, but rather adverbs. Like in "The light is on" or "The light is off". See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal_verbs

Adverbs are always capitalized, so these aren't examples of exceptions. (It doesn't actually state explicitly how to deal with adverbs here, but they are normally always capitalized, and the meaning here seems to be that they should be.)

Likewise, "Blow Up" might not have the meaning of blowing in an upwards direction, but if it did - like in "Flying Up to the Sky" for instance - it wouldn't be a preposition anyway, but an adverb, so it would be capitalized anyway. ("He's up the Creek" on the other hand would be an example of using up as a preposition.)

"Talk to her" would be an example of an actual preposition (to) used in a phrasal verb. So according to the rule stated here, this should be capitalized as "Talk To Her". I wonder if that's the meaning; it seems very non-standard to capitalize to in this case. 193.91.181.142 (talk) 00:12, 4 July 2008 (UTC) (Nick)

Current Rules Don't Cover Certain Words with 5 Letters
The current rules cover certain words with more or less letters than 5, but is silent on rules that apply to such words if they have 5 letters. If you want consistency with several other major capitalization guides, change references to "more than 5 letters" to "5 or more letters".