Joachim Noreiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's worth bearing in mind that British and US rules > on title capitalization are different.
And even within the Chicago Manual of Style, there are variations, yes. But the basics are the same. > 'Automatic Save Every Five Minutes' makes me feel like > I'm being shouted out, or at best, e-nun-cia-ted to > like I'm a bit slow. It does, however, allow you to use it in a sentence without quoting. > The HIG section on Capitalization says to use sentence > capitalization for labels and so on. > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design-text-labels.html#layout-capitalization Not sure how I missed that table. Thanks! One advantage that the Java Design Guidelines have is that you don't need to look up the capitalization in table all the time--use Headline capitalization everywhere. I agree the sentence capitalization does look better in some circumstances, but the simplicity of Java's rule, and the ability to use without quoting in documentation are pretty strong reasons to use headline capitalization always. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
