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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    Capitalize the first character of the first element if it is a letter, but leave the rest lower case except for proper names and other items that would ordinarily be capitalized in running text. Use: Economic and demographic shifts after World War II Avoid: Economic and Demographic Shifts After World War II

  3. Help:Advanced text formatting - Wikipedia

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    Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typeface styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing to produce typeset artwork in physical or digital form. The same block of text set with line-height 1.5 is easier to read: Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type ...

  4. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the problematic text. Different languages use different proofreading marks and sometimes publishers have their own in-house proofreading marks.

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    In titles (including subtitles, if any) of English-language works (books, poems, songs, etc.), every word is capitalized except for the definite and indefinite articles, the short coordinating conjunctions, and any short prepositions. This is known as title case. Capitalization of non-English titles varies by language (see below). Wikipedia ...

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Captions

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    The text of captions should not be specially formatted (with italics, for example), except in ways that would apply if it occurred in the main text. Several discussions (e.g. this one) have failed to reach a consensus on whether "stage directions" such as (right) or (behind podium) should be in italics, set off with commas, etc. Any one article ...

  7. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 4

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    Since we normally capitalize the names of civilizations we should capitalize the whole set of words "Ancient Rome". In other words, Ancient is considered part of the name. If the wording is not especially common or unique and is simply a name plus some descriptive words the author has added to be more specific, the name should be capitalized ...

  8. Help:Wikitext - Wikipedia

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    HTML equivalent: <hr /> (which can be indented, whereas ---- always starts at the left margin.) Table of contents Further information: WP:TOC When a page has at least four headings, a table of contents (TOC) will automatically appear after the lead and before the first heading. The TOC can be controlled by magic words or templates: __FORCETOC__ forces the TOC to appear at the normal location ...

  9. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters - Wikipedia

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    In combination with the text just before the example, the insertion sneakily seems to suggest that "Indigenous" belongs to the category "other upper-case terms of this sort", while WP:INDIGENOUS makes it clear that there is actually no consensus on whether or not to capitalize it, so logically it falls rather in the same category as "Black" and ...