Froots clearly has selected different usage rules than most other organizations. For musical work titles, the most prevalent convention I've seen (in style books and elsewhere) is to enclose a song title in quotes, but to place the name of any larger work (like an album) in italics. On the Internet, it's a very good idea to use quotes instead of italics because, when formatted text is pasted into plain-text files (a frequent practice still for users), quotes are retained, whereas italics are lost.

Read my first post for why initial caps on every word is a bad, or at least inferior, choice.


I usually see indentation used when pairs of lines generally form a single thought and any musical pause between the lines is minor. Of course, when verses follow the same pattern, the writer or typesetter generally picks the most common pattern and sticks with that. Other writers apparently use it just to make lines easier to count. Sometimes it's used to indicate a sort of refrain or chorus section or a folderol line (often italicized as well).

I lament the demise of the double space (or simply larger space) at the end of a sentence, because it makes text more readable. In many typefaces used for "graphic design", it's often difficult to distinguish periods from commas, leading to confusion. I continue to type double spaces; "progress" too often is backwards.