Karsten Wade wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 13:52 -0500, Diana Fong wrote: > > >> - "Get Fedora" ... can also do with or without the period. >> > > It was Paul who made the point originally, and I was certain that it was > a specific GNOME documentation style guide. You may not know, but in > FDP we specify this order for deciding style: > > 1. Chicago Manual of Style > 2. GNOME Documentation Style Guide > 3. Fedora Documentation Guide > > That is, we default to 1, then 2, and note exceptions in 3. This is > typical of writing projects, having a canonical reference outside of the > project, and noting project rules and exceptions in a style guide. > > So, it may be a CMS recommendation that I can't look up. It is not, > unfortunately, specified in the GNOME guide ... but, if you look at the > ToC for that guide, you won't see a title or heading with a period in > it: > > http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/index.html > > We will be sure to include this rule in the next version of the Fedora > Documentation Guide. For now, I'll just ask all to remember that we > don't put periods in titles. FWIW, Mozilla didn't either with "Get > Firefox". > > - Karsten > The question I would like to raise is this: Is it a title, or is it an introductory statement? I agree that a period does not belong in a title, but it does belong in an introductory statement. We simply have to decide which one this is. When I was coming up with the design for the current front page, I tried both ways. The current result presents it as a title, without a period. The design I have produced as a prototype uses it more as an introductory statement, in which a period would belong. How do we want to use it? -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx www.n-man.com --
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