British English Language Questions

Writing a go book, I face some language questions that my grammar
books don't answer clearly.

1) Which words in headlines are upper case or lower case? Are there
fixed rules or does the writer have some freedom?

2) In headlines, do all parts or only the first letter of a word with
hyphens start with upper case? Is this up to the writer's freedom, if
only he is consistent?

3) Are all words of a multiple word preposition like "in front of"
written with lower case letters in a headline?

4) Some nouns tend to be written as one word (eyespace), some as
separate words (eye shape). Why? Which in general? (BTW, superko
underwent a process from super ko via super-ko to superko and this
newsgroup was the major origin of this language change.)

5) While German almost consists of multiple noun words:), English is
somewhat fond of connecting nouns by "of". OTOH, specialized terms may
well be formed as a simple succession of nouns. As someone introducing
lots of definitions and specialized terms, it is particularly hard for
me to know about expected usage here. So I am classifying types,
meanings, and directions and therefore want to introduce and use the
terms "move type", "move meaning", and "development direction"
frequently. Is that just ordinary or would the native English reader's
soul cry for "type of move", "meaning of move", and "direction of
development" each time?
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