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LETTERS intended for capitals of full size are indicated in the manuscript by underscoring them with three parallel lines. The first word of every full sentence should begin with a capital letter. For the proper expression of words correctly written in English this rule is invariable, but it should not be applied, when literal exactness is intended, to a reprint of the incorrect writing of an illiterate person who does not begin a sentence with a capital.[1] Every line or verse of poetry should begin with a
- ↑ There have been even scholarly men who did not observe this ruling. The English Typographical Founders and Founderies of E. Rowe Mores shows capitals for proper names only and for the first letter of the first sentence in a paragraph, but not for the first letters of sentences that follow in that paragraph. (See extract on page 36 .) A quotation from the book is not fairly presented if it does not reproduce this mannerism. In setting matter with these peculiarities the copy should be followed.
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