Hi Junio, On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > >> > Interactive rebase's scripts may be indented; We need to handle this > >> > case, too, now that we prepare the sequencer to process interactive > >> > rebases. > >> > >> s/; We need/; we need/ > > > > Hrmpf. From http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm: > > > > There is some disagreement among writing reference manuals about > > when you should capitalize an independent clause following a > > colon. Most of the manuals advise that when you have more than one > > sentence in your explanation or when your sentence(s) is a formal > > quotation, a capital is a good idea. The NYPL Writer's Guide urges > > consistency within a document; the Chicago Manual of Style says > > you may begin an independent clause with a lowercase letter unless it's > > one of those two things (a quotation or more than one sentence). > > The APA Publication Manual is the most extreme: it advises us to > > always capitalize an independent clause following a colon. The advice > > given above is consistent with the Gregg Reference Manual. > > > > Based on that, I think that a capital is the correct case here. > > Does that manual have anything to say about semicolons, which is a > different thing? You're correct, I overlooked that. Fixed, Dscho