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vr8hub 2025-01-21 12:00:34 -06:00 • committed by Alex Cabal
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<figure><code class="html full"><span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>“Surrender you two! and confound you for two wild beasts!”<span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">&gt;</span></code></figure>
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<p>Older public domain works, especially eighteenth century and prior, often used uppercased words as a kind of emphasis. Unless they are for purposes of personification, they should be changed to lowercase.</p>
<p>Older public domain works, especially eighteenth century and prior, often used capitalized words as a kind of emphasis. Unless they are for purposes of personification, they should be changed to lowercase.</p>
<p>Here, “History” is a personification, but “Courtiers” is not.</p>
<figure><code class="html full"><span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>To the eye of History many things, in that sick-room of Louis, are now visible, which to the Courtiers there present were invisible.<span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">&gt;</span></code></figure>
<p>Therefore, “Courtiers” should be lowercased. This would be also be an editorial commit.</p>
<figure><code class="html full"><span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>To the eye of History many things, in that sick-room of Louis, are now visible, which to the courtiers there present were invisible.<span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">&gt;</span></code></figure>
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<p>Often, the first few words of each chapter in a work are set in all- or small-caps. We do not retain that formatting.
<figure><code class="html full"><span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>I SUPPOSE that in the days before the catastrophe I was a very fair representative of the better type of business man.<span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">&gt;</span></code></figure>
<p>The first two words should be changed to normal sentence case in an editorial commit.</p>
<figure><code class="html full"><span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>I suppose that in the days before the catastrophe I was a very fair representative of the better type of business man.<span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">&gt;</span></code></figure>
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