TS: This Is How To Use Capitals In A Title vs This Is How to Use Capitals in a Title

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Which way of capitalizing song/album titles do you prefer? I usually find the all-caps convention a bit clunky-looking, and so tend to favouring the other one. I think I've read some rules for such partial capitalization somewhere, but can't remember them exactly -- something like leave the following uncapitalized:
-- articles
-- the infinitive mark "to"
-- conjunctions (?)
-- prepositions
...except when "long" (at least two syllables and/or approx five letters).

So, if you care at all, what's your way of doing this?

― OleM (OleM), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

House Of Jealous Lovers vs House of Jealous Lovers

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly;
Boy In Da Corner vs Boy in da Corner
Hail To The Thief vs Hail to the Thief
etc etc

― OleM (OleM), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the Of is fairly important in HOJL

to the is not so in HTTT

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Who Gives A Toss vs Who Gives a Toss

{/ joking}

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer the partial way myself..more elegant somehow..but I sell a lot of stuff on eBay and I notice that (popular music) CDs and records almost always use the all caps approach so when typing out track listings I normally stick to whatever style has been used on the sleeve (so it looks 'right' to the buyer).

― David (David), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't care how 'important' of is, it's a preposition! Most prepositions I would never capitalize, but I make exceptions for, say, against, around - with those i call it By ear

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

if the track listing lists a song as being entirely capitalized, I'll often go that way, just cuz people always obey artists self-indulgent syntax that makes no goddamn.sense.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I Shot The Sheriff
...and they say it is a capital offense.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I like capitalizing everything; it makes my opinions look more important.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 22 December 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I capitalize the first letter of every word when I'm tagging my mp3s, because that's one of the options on my mp3 renamer. That practice has sort of filtered its way into my everyday writing...

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you noticed that those like twee indie pop - hardly ever use capitals, for bands and titles.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I capitalize every word on the album entries of my CD list, for the sake of coherency.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Capitalize neither conjunctions nor prepositions nor articles, unless they have four letters or more. "From" is an exercise left to the editor.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop this inane jumble of capitalisation! All cap initials if you must but really I'd prefer House of jealous lovers.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

in italics...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

in French, they only capitalize the first word of a title.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

what do the French have to do with it? of course they'd do something silly (and easy) like that...

― yetimike (McGonigal), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't the French INVENT titles?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Naw I'm sure that was the Greeks but the French would take credit given half a chance. I can't hear someone speak French without remembering the way that Pee Wee responds to them in "Great Adventure."

― yetimike (McGonigal), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooops, no that would be the Egyptians, no the Assyrians, no the -- I don't knwo what the heck I am saying I should just go to sleep. Merry solstice.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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