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Originally Posted by Mister L
(But yes obviously I would never consider those title formats "correct" in the html files. I think we agree on that question. It's astonishing the terrible state of some files made by so-called "professionals" who have charged for their services. These are books made for publishers and on sale in bookstores.)
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I do wish to jump in here--if by "professionals" you mean formatters, formatters
are absolutely not responsible for title casing. We're not editors or proofreaders and we are not paid to do that work. In fact, if we "forget our place" and do make corrections, we're
typically told off for it. I once had to listen to an ass-chewing by a rather jumped-up self-published author, who informed me that if she wanted her book ruined by "a bunch of self-important clerks," she'd hire some.
(Tex here
does do that, for one of his clients in particular, but that's a unique situation.)
So, if you
happened to have meant formatters, please know that formatters do NOT make those choices. Believe me, at least once a week I get a manuscript with "forward" in it and punctuation outside of quotation marks where it oughtn't be, incorrect emdash use, and on and on and on, but formatters don't earn
remotely enough money to also proofread and correct what we see. And trade publishers? They hire out Indian firms, so...fuhgeddaboudit.
Hitch