Hugo appears to force the capitalisation of the .Title property when listing content belonging to particular terms in a given taxonomy. This might make sense as a template default, where it could be overridden by a custom template, but as things stand it is unnecessary and unhelpful to have this fun…

[image] paulwalk: It still seems odd to me that this capitalisation is hard-coded - perhaps I have missed something which would allow me to over-ride it? No, it’s hardcoded. You are one of two persons who have asked this question, so I wouldn’t call it very odd. A fix may be possible, but I’m…

[image] paulwalk: I’m intrigued - what would be broken by removing this automatic formatting of metadata string values? Something to do with sorting? People’s Hugo sites would be different, i.e. broken (or fixed; in the eye of the beholder …). I like the current behavior and I would be annoye…

It’s true that changing the value of .Title would be breaking, but would it be possible to add another field somewhere that contained the original capitalisation (that is, the capitalisation used in the front matter)? I am also running into this problem, because I am trying to use a taxonomy for au…

Regarding taxonomies, see this commit: 80a774d7 . It’s included in 0.15 but apparently not documented. Opened a new issue: [image] Issue: Document PreserveTaxonomyNames opened by moorereason on 2015-11-30 closed by anthonyfok on 2015-12-11 As committed here: be38acd Und…

@moorereason , excellent! Thanks very much for the pointer to that option.

Hard-coded capitalisation of the .Title property

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paulwalk October 24, 2015, 2:20pm 3

Thanks for the prompt reply!

I’m intrigued - what would be broken by removing this automatic formatting of metadata string values? Something to do with sorting?

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Hard-coded capitalisation of the .Title property

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