Please include all of the text of my email when you rebut my opinion.
It's easy to make your point when you
leave out what I wrote.
A motherboard manual? Are you kidding? Was it called "How to use a
motherboard?".
Would you suggest this as a model for technical documentation?
"Jean has said she's not home right now", while a powerful argument,
does not sway me.
I have been given good reasons for using this style, but an editor's
vacation is not one
of them.
I skipped nothing about "having something else that's easy to get
wrong", I simply stated that
providing what readers expect was worth doing. You said you picked a
book at random,
and it used sentence style capitalization for titles. I was polite
before, but this is just ridiculous.
I will now state that it's impossible to pick a book at random that uses
sentence style capitalization
in America.
You can argue for a new way to do things, but to say that either way is
proper or common is just
spin.
You respect my opinion? You have a funny way of showing it, I have no
respect for yours.
Best regards,
Lou
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Lou Iorio wrote:
My opinion is simply that: an opinion.
You are not stating it as an opinion. You are saying that this is "the
one and only correct way".
You have yet to mention a single title of a book that uses sentence
style capitalization.
I just grabed a user guide for a motherboard manual, and it uses
sentence style.
You have yet to mention a single style guide that endorses sentence
style capitalization.
Jean has said that she's not home right now.
So, no, I have not been given any justification.
And you also skipped the bit about having something else that's easy
to get wrong, the extra work for reviewers, and the lack of
justification for capitalizing extra words.
Now, you just said you were just stating an opinion. Fine. I respect
your opinion then.
Cheers,
Daniel.
