Editing Capitalization (section)

==By context==
* In all modern European languages, the first [[word]] in a [[Sentence (linguistics)|sentence]] is capitalized, as is the first word in any quoted sentence. (For example, in English: Nana said, "There are ripe watermelons in the garden!")
** The first word of a sentence is not capitalized in most modern editions of [[ancient Greek]] and, to a lesser extent, [[Latin]] texts. The distinction between lower and upper case was not introduced before the Middle Ages; in antiquity only the capital forms of letters were used.
** For some items, many style guides recommend that initial capitalization be avoided by not putting the item at the beginning of a sentence, or by writing it in lowercase even at the beginning of a sentence. Such scientific terms have their own rules about capitalization which take precedence over the standard initial capitalization rule. For example, ''[[pH]]'' would be liable to cause confusion if written ''PH'', and initial ''m'' and ''M'' may even have different meanings, [[milli]] and [[mega-|mega]], for example 2 MA (megamperes) is a billion times 2 mA (milliamperes). Increasingly nowadays, some trademarks and company names start with a lowercase letter, and similar considerations apply.
** When the first letters of a word have been omitted and replaced by an apostrophe, the first letter in a sentence is usually left uncapitalized in English and certain other languages, as "{{Thin space}}'tis a shame ..." In Dutch, the second word is capitalized instead in this situation: "'''t Was leuk''" vs. "''Het was leuk''" (both meaning "It was fun").
* Traditionally, the first words of a [[line (poetry)|line of verse]] are capitalized in English, e.g.:<br/>''Meanwhile, the winged Heralds, by command<br/>Of sovereign power, with awful ceremony<br/>And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim<br/>A solemn council forthwith to be held<br/>At Pandemonium, the high capital<br/>Of Satan and his peers. [...]'' ([[John Milton|Milton]], [[Paradise Lost]] I:752–756)
** [[Modernist poetry|Modernist poets]] often ignore or defy this convention.
* In the U.S., [[headline]]s and [[title]]s of works typically use [[title case]], in which certain words (such as nouns, adjectives and verbs) are capitalized and others (such as prepositions and conjunctions) are not. In the U.K., titles of works use title case, but headlines generally use sentence case (or all caps in [[Tabloid journalism|tabloid]] newspapers).