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On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:34:23 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> This is one for the typography geeks. :) |
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> |
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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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> |
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> Clearly this is inconsistent. Should we change to: |
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> |
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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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The standards I usually write to mandate inconsistency: \section and |
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\subsection are title case, and \paragraph is sentence case with no |
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full stop at the end... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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