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This is one for the typography geeks. :) |
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Out of the 167 (1st to 4th level) section headings in PMS, 72 are |
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using Title Case (i.e., important words are capitalised) and 38 are |
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using sentence case (only first word capitalised). For the remaining |
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57 it makes no difference (e.g., because they consist of a single word |
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only). |
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Clearly this is inconsistent. Should we change to: |
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- Sentence case. This is the style used in the wiki [1]. |
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- Title Case. This is what is used in the Devmanual. OTOH, section |
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headings containing technical terms like "The parent File" look a |
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little strange. |
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- APA style [2]: Title Case at levels 1 and 2 (i.e., chapters and |
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sections) but sentence case at levels 3 and lower. This might |
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require the fewest changes, because all chapter headings are in |
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Title Case already, whereas sentence case seems to be preferred at |
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lower levels. |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Wiki:Guidelines#Titles_and_section_headings |
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[2] http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/headings/ |
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