I will also add that, looking at this list of english prepositions (is this correct?), I'm not sure I accept the CMoS description.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_prepositions Bruce On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> wrote: > Does CMoS give a comprehensive list of words? If not, we could change > the language in the spec to something more general (e.g. a mention > that we follow CMoS on this topic), and provide a JSON file with all > desired stop-words in either the "schema" or "documentation" repo. > That would be much easier to keep up-to-date. > > Rintze > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote: >> Aren't "stop words' just a superset of prepositions? >> >> Seems better to keep the current language, and specify what we mean by the >> former. >> >> Bruce >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Sebastian Karcher >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> currently, CSL specs define title casing (text-case="title") as >>> uppercasing the first letter of every word that isn't on a list of "stop >>> words". >>> >>> http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#title-case-conversion >>> According to the Chicago Manual of Style - which has to the best of my >>> knowledge the most thorough rules for title casing, _all_ propositions >>> should be lowercased >>> >>> I would like to propose (and Frank & Rintze agree) to bring the specs in >>> line with CMoS on this, i.e. rephrase the rule as "preopositions as well as >>> the following stop words..." >>> >>> Current citeproc-js behavior is a hybrid, with some additional >>> prepositions, not listed in the specs, already included, but others missing. >>> On the technical side, while we may miss some prepositions and some words >>> may be ambiguous, I don't think it'd be hard to find & add a list of >>> prepositions to title-casing. >>> >>> Are there any concerns or objections? >>> >>> Sebastian >>> original discussion on the Zotero forums: >>> >>> >>> https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/30484/uncapitalizing-prepositions/#Item_21 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your SQL database under version control now! > Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent > caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under > version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
