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 attention to nouns for which notice is desired. When capitals are used freely in a text they must be used with system, and the same words or class of words should always come under the same rule.

Compound words in every line of capital letters should be connected with an en dash, and not with the hyphen.

Some writers make use of capitals as a modified form of display, or to invite special attention to a particular word or words.

The Drive, when it has been justified and fitted to the mould, is known as a Matrix.

In some kinds of descriptive writing this use of the capital is permissible, but it is unsafe to capitalize nouns too freely, and thereby make display where display is not needed and is irritating to a reader. Exact writers never make use of this method of marking emphasis in any scientific description.

Summaries of chapters, running titles, tables of contents, and work of similar nature, including the