4 Letter Prepositions Should Be Lowercase

[geekmaster1]

this includes 'from' and 'with'

[Brian Schweitzer]

I disagree.  The 4 letter prepositions in English are:
amid, anti, atop, down, from, into, like, near, next, onto, over, past, plus, sans, save, than, till, unto, upon, with

Having most, if not all, of these lowercased would simply look wrong to me.

Just making up an example title here, this change would give:
"amid the anti-Disestablishmentarians, We Came down from the Heights with All the People Who Had Gone past, and Came upon a Building".

Also, the number of cases whith 4-letter prepositions that can be both preposition and some other type of word are pretty large; this would be quite a pain to try and work around in Guess Case,

I think we draw a decent enough line at 3-letter preopositions.

Brian

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:52 PM, geekmaster1 <xcingix@...> wrote:

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[Paul C. Bryan]

I can think of one case where it would be intuitive to make an
exception: the use of "with" when conjoining artists in a collaboration.
To wit:

- Shakti with John McLaughlin
- The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin
- Mahavishnu Orchestra with The London Symphony Orchestra
- John McLaughlin with The One Truth Band

Capitalizing "with" just doesn't "look right" to me...

Paul

On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 19:15 -0400, Brian Schweitzer wrote:

> I disagree.  The 4 letter prepositions in English are:
> amid, anti, atop, down, from, into, like, near, next, onto, over,
> past, plus, sans, save, than, till, unto, upon, with
>
> Having most, if not all, of these lowercased would simply look wrong
> to me.
>
> Just making up an example title here, this change would give:
> "amid the anti-Disestablishmentarians, We Came down from the Heights
> with All the People Who Had Gone past, and Came upon a Building".
>
> Also, the number of cases whith 4-letter prepositions that can be both
> preposition and some other type of word are pretty large; this would
> be quite a pain to try and work around in Guess Case,
>
> I think we draw a decent enough line at 3-letter preopositions.
>
> Brian
>
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:52 PM, geekmaster1 <xcingix@...> wrote:
>        
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