Capitalizing Titles

Capitalizing texts in user interface

In English, generally titles have all words capitalised except for conjunctions (of, for, and etc.) and prepositions (like with.) User interface elements (buttons, titles, menu items) are formatted like titles.

I have a piece of software I'm using right now which has a "Tasks" menu and 3 items as follows:

• New task
• Delete Task
• Task Properties

The difference in capitalisation on "new task" stands out a mile for me - it just doesn't look "correct."

Any difference between str.capitalize() and str.title()?

title() changes every word, but capitalize() only the first word in a sentence:

>>> a = 'silly question'
>>> a.title()
'Silly Question'
>>> a.capitalize()
'Silly question'
>>> 

Capitalize article title in latex

You can use the same format we used in your question yesterday for the title:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[notes,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}

\addbibresource{sample.bib}

\usepackage{mfirstuc}
\DeclareFieldFormat{jtnoformat}{\capitalisewords{#1}}

\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchbibmacro{mag+news+title}{\printfield[noformat]{title}}{\printfield[jtnoformat]{title}}{}{}   

\begin{document}
\title{The Chicago Citation Style with biblatex}
\author{WriteLaTeX}
\maketitle

\section{Demonstration}

 Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. \autocite{PP95} Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Or if you want to have proper title case:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[notes,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}

\addbibresource{sample.bib}

\usepackage{mfirstuc}
\MFUnocap{a}
\MFUnocap{for}
\MFUnocap{the}
\MFUnocap{of}
\DeclareFieldFormat{jtnoformat}{\capitalisewords{#1}}

\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchbibmacro{mag+news+title}{\printfield[noformat]{title}}{\printfield[jtnoformat]{title}}{}{}   

\begin{document}
\title{The Chicago Citation Style with biblatex}
\author{WriteLaTeX}
\maketitle

\section{Demonstration}

 Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. \autocite{PP95} Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

How can I capitalize the first letter of each word in a string?

The .title() method of a string (either ASCII or Unicode is fine) does this:

>>> "hello world".title()
'Hello World'
>>> u"hello world".title()
u'Hello World'

However, look out for strings with embedded apostrophes, as noted in the docs.

The algorithm uses a simple language-independent definition of a word as groups of consecutive letters. The definition works in many contexts but it means that apostrophes in contractions and possessives form word boundaries, which may not be the desired result:

>>> "they're bill's friends from the UK".title()
"They'Re Bill'S Friends From The Uk"

Capitalize HTML title tag

You can try this code it will work. I have tested this code.

<title><?php echo ucwords(strtolower(get_field('custompagetitle'))); ?>

Capitalizing titles

Building off of Josh Voigts comment:

def titleize(name)
  lowercase_words = %w{a an the and but or for nor of}
  name.split.each_with_index.map{|x, index| lowercase_words.include?(x) && index > 0 ? x : x.capitalize }.join(" ")
end

You might want make lowercase_words a constant and move it out of the function since they won't ever change.

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