On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:19 +0100, Dimitris Glezos wrote: > O/H Jonathan Roberts έγραψε: > > Hi, > > > > sorry I'm sending *so* many mails to the list! > > > > Possible addition to the style guidelines would be that > > headings/titles should either be *all* capitalized, i.e. Cool Things > > To Do With Fedora, or first capital and then all lower case, i.e. Cool > > things to do with Fedora. Some documents currently have headings which > > look like "Cool Things To Do with Fedora" - the random use of > > capitals/lowercase is ugly, imho! > > FWIW, in translating to greek we decided to have only the first letter capital. > > But it seems it is normal in english to have many caps, right? Newspapers, > research papers etc use it often. Is there any other reason besides make the > sentence sound more important (pompous)? I can't speak to other languages, but in many English style guides, words are capitalized unless they are internal articles, short prepositions, or conjunctions. First words are always capitalized: The Prime Minister Is in the Parliament Building Across Town Building a Better Mousetrap A Briefing on Wild Animals and Their Habitats -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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