On 06/10/2012, at 10:58, Robert Großkopf <[email protected]> wrote:
> I haven't learned English so well, that I can say: This should be > capitalized and that shouldn't. > > I remember, that there were rules to write a word with a capital, when > it's a name or it's a noun (in a heading/title). Then I had a look at > the English "Introducing Writer", which I downloaded at > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/e/e3/0201WG3-IntroducingWriter.pdf > After reading the contents I am confused. Some nouns are written with a > capital letter at the beginning of the words, others are not. > > Now I want to add or correct something in > http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/base-handbook/drafts/base-3.5-chapter-3-tables/view > , because I have written the German "Base-Handbuch". > > If there is any rule for writing words with a capitalized letter at the > beginning, which sombody like me could understand, please let me know. > > Regards, > > Robert There are differences of opinion (and different "rules") about what to capitalise in English, and in our books you will find capitalisation is not consistent if our copyeditor Hazel has not been through the book recently. The rule I follow is that if a term is used is used in a general sense, it is not capitalised, but if the same word is used as a name somewhere else, it is capitalised. For example, the name of a book might be Base Handbook, but if you say something like "...in Chapter 3 of this handbook..." it is not capitalised. Or "...several chapters in this book..." but "Chapters 3 and 4..." I suggest you don't need to be concerned about capitalisation in this book because someone else will fix it as needed for consistency. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
