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On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 02:52:00PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Guilherme Amadio wrote: |
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> > [3] The Chicago Manual of Style, Chapter 8, Section 157 |
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> > http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch08/ch08_sec157.html |
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> > Above is another interesting reference to follow. |
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> It is on my shelf here (14th edition from 1993 though). :) |
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> > It should be noted that different languages have different rules |
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> > (or preferences) for capitalization, so whatever reference we follow |
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> > should be for English. |
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> The problem is that there is more than one set of rules for English. |
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> According to Wikipedia [4], "the rules differ substantially between |
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> individual house styles" and "the convention followed by many British |
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> publishers [...] is sentence-style capitalisation in headlines". |
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> As PMS follows British English spelling (with some exceptions, e.g., |
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> "licence" is spelt "license" even if it doesn't denote the variable), |
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> maybe we should also go with sentence case then? |
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If PMS uses British English, then using sentence case seems quite |
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reasonable. Let's see what others think. |
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Cheers, |
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—Guilherme |
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