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A line capitalized like a title

Suggestion capitalization.title-case No automatic fix

Lyrics use conventional sentence capitalization rather than capitalizing every word. Review this manually because names, acronyms, and intentional styling can look similar.

Convention: Capitalize only what convention requires.

Example

Flagged by this rule
[Verse]
This Is The Way We Live
Every Single Word Starts Uppercase

In the workbench this reads: This line may be capitalized like a title.

Accepted by this rule
[Verse]
This is the way we live
Every single word starts normally

The fix

This finding has no automatic fix — resolving it is a judgment call, so the workbench points at the exact range and leaves the edit to you.

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

The source cited by this check:

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