Hi :) Don't worry about getting it wrong. Most native English speakers get it wrong too anyway and it's not a fixed target. Companies usually have a "house style" to guess at, sometimes it's written down.
Also language evolves. Names such as G.N.U. are tiresome to type out or write in full if written often so they gradually become GNU, then Gnu and along the way may start to be used in other ways, to describe a similar system. So if the word was used in a medical text-book it would be G.N.U. but in an OpenSource context it's more likely to be Gnu or even gnu. Likewise there are medical words and legal jargon that we would write in full. Trying to understand it by reading a rule-book is going to make things confusing. Rule-books are a good place to start to get a good foundation. Then you just have to adapt through experience. If you are confused it's because it is confusing. Don't worry about it. Native English-speakers get confused too. People have often used this mailing list to ask about specific words and circumstances and we have tried to be consistent but circumstances might be subtly different and mistakes are possible. If there is a specific example that you think is wrong then let us know and we'll either try to justify it or encourage you to fix it. It helps us all learn. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 6/10/12, Robert Großkopf <[email protected]> wrote: From: Robert Großkopf <[email protected]> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Translation "Base-Handbuch" - capitalize Headers? To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 6 October, 2012, 9:58 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 somebody like me could understand, please let me know. Regards, Robert -- 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
