Revert auto-capitalization of term titles

[jmooring]

This front matter:

tags = ['tag-a','tag-b']

Produces this taxonomy page:

And this term page:

Alternative 1

You can change your templates from this:

{{ range .Pages }}
  <h2><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .LinkTitle }}</a></h2>
{{ end }}

to this:

{{ range .Pages }}
  <h2><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .Data.Term }}</a></h2>
{{ end }}

...but that means you need one or two more templates to handle these page kinds.

Alternative 2

Do this in your site configuration...

titleCaseStyle = 'none'

...but that affects how the strings.Title function behaves as well.

Alternative 3

Create a term page for every term and set the title to whatever you want...

hugo new content tags/foo/_index.md

...but you have to do that for every term.

[bep]

What's wrong with the above? And why is the alternative better?

[LorenDB]

As the original reporter of this issue on the Hugo forum, I'll chime in here.

What's wrong with the above? And why is the alternative better?

I personally like having my tags rendered in lowercase, so I wrote them as lowercase in my YAML front matter. When I look at my tags page, now I see some tags like Ksp2. This is clearly incorrect, since KSP2 is an abbreviation for Kerbal Space Program 2. With this update, I'm forced to either uppercase tags like ksp2 or use a hacky workaround that may break other parts of my site.

I think auto-capitalizing things like this is also a bad idea in general. When I write text, I assume that it will be rendered without changes to its case, so if I write tags = ["foo", "bar", "ksp2"], I intend for them to be rendered in all lowercase.

[bep]

OK, that's fine then (but I'm not doing the code work for this one :-))

[jmooring]

I understand that we are also auto-capitalizing automatic section pages titles, but conceptually (from a content author's standpoint) section titles and terms are different things. There's also demand for disabling auto-capitalization of automatic section page titles:

#9793

We could do something like that instead, letting it apply to section, term, and taxonomy pages.

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EDIT: The more I think about #9793, the more I like it. It's a good compromise. Casing of automatic titles will be consistent for section, taxonomy, and term.

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