Hi Jeremie,
On 12 Nov 2014 at 16:22:28, Jeremie BOUSQUET ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > Hi, > > > 2014-11-12 9:21 GMT+01:00 [email protected] : > > > Hi devs, > > > > Andrea created an issue about capitalizing button labels ( > > http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11265) and I think it’s a good idea > > that we decide some rules about capitalization indeed. > > > > I’ve found this document from MSDN: > > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb246428(v=vs.85).aspx > > > > I propose to adopt this document’s content as our rule for Capitalization > > and to document that in our dev best practices on dev.xwiki.org. > > > > Example of labels: > > * “Add comment” —> “Add Comment” > > * “Reset to default” —> “Reset to Default” > > > > WDYT? > > > > The rule misses some exceptions, for brand names, abbreviations, etc. I > don't know if it should be considered an issue or not, but normally > whatever the location (sentence, title, button...), in english you should > write "iPhone", "eBay", "mRNA", and not "Iphone" or "IPhone" or "Ebay" or > "MRNA" or "Mnra". I suppose it would be true of any language, and that a > brand name would be written using its original alphabet and case - but I'm > really not sure of this. Sure, the full Capitalization rules and details are here for the English language: http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/capital.asp I didn’t want to go into minute details for exceptions, just quickly agree that for labels, menu entries, titles, etc we would use “title caps”. I thought it would be a no brainer since everyone does just that… seems I was wrong :) Just to be clear again, the status is that right now we have in the same menu entry and I wanted to agree on fixing this: - Print preview - View Source Thanks -Vincent > > Thanks > > -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
