Make the title func follow some style guide

[bep]

This template func could be very useful, if it was done properly.

Right now it title cases first char of each word.

So

This is a title => "This Is A Title"

From the doc:

// Title returns a copy of the string s with all Unicode letters that begin words
// mapped to their title case.

Have a look at http://titlecapitalization.com/

Pick a style, but it would cool if AP style was the default, then add an option for the other two.

Do not underestimate the importance of this.

@anthonyfok - you are the style guide / copy edit expert in here. What do you think? I can implement this if more people than me thinks it is important ...

[EricR]

I think this would be useful 👍

[anthonyfok]

@bep: Hoho! You are flattering me! I am no expert. ;-)

But yes, I think what you suggest would be a great thing to have.
Hugo docs used to use text-transform: capitalize for the sidebar menu,
and having "Of", "The" etc. capitalized was very disconcerting,
hence commit 769ab9e.

The only concern I have is that languages other than English may have different styles/rules. For example, it seems to me that French titles tend to use "sentence case" rather than "title case". But I think I am worrying too much. ;-)

English is most likely the most-used language for Hugo and for any static website generator / CMS out there, so I'd say it is a very valuable feature and a noble effort. Thank you for taking this initiative!

[bep]

I'm from Norway, and we have no title case ...

[bep]

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[yihui]

I'd not say it is a bug, but... "This Is A Title" just looks terrible, although English is not my native language. I don't care which style to use, but any style would be significantly better than no style at all.

My actual use case is to display all category names of a site, and I'm in a dilemma. If I use preserveTaxonomyNames = true, I get ugly URLs (e.g. /categories/This is a Category/); if I set it to false (default), I get ugly names for humans (this-is-a-category). In the latter case, I could use string | humanize | title, but it gives me "This Is A Category". If only the original category names were stored and accessible from .Site.Taxonomies.categories...

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