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A line starting in lowercase

Suggestion capitalization.line-start Previewed fix

Conventional capitalization suggests an uppercase line start, but stylization and continuation can be valid; review the preview in context.

Convention: Capitalize only what convention requires.

Example

Flagged by this rule
[Verse]
the night is young

In the workbench this reads: This lyric line starts with a lowercase letter.

Accepted by this rule
[Verse]
The night is young

The fix

In the workbench this finding carries one control, labelled Capitalize t. The change is contextual, so it is previewed as a diff in your document first and applies only when you confirm it.

The convention and its limits

This check detects the pattern shown above. An accepted example passes this check; it is not a review of the whole transcription.

Source

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