Re: [gentoo-pms] Title Case versus sentence case

[Michał Górny]

On śro, 2017-04-12 at 14:52 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Guilherme Amadio wrote:
> > [3] The Chicago Manual of Style, Chapter 8, Section 157
> >     http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch08/ch08_sec157.html
> > Above is another interesting reference to follow.
>
> It is on my shelf here (14th edition from 1993 though). :)
>
> > It should be noted that different languages have different rules
> > (or preferences) for capitalization, so whatever reference we follow
> > should be for English.
>
> The problem is that there is more than one set of rules for English.
> According to Wikipedia [4], "the rules differ substantially between
> individual house styles" and "the convention followed by many British
> publishers [...] is sentence-style capitalisation in headlines".
>
> As PMS follows British English spelling (with some exceptions, e.g.,
> "licence" is spelt "license" even if it doesn't denote the variable),
> maybe we should also go with sentence case then?

You should start discussion about unifying BrE vs AmE as well ;-P.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny