Re: Proposal: "text-transform" property revision

A quick note about potential keywords...this would generally be referred 
to as "title case" typographically, so "titlecase" would probably be a 
very clear keyword. (There are minor variations of title cases, 
capitalization of prepositions, etc, but capitalizing first characters 
and using lowercases for the rest is the most common usage.)

jvd


Brad Kemper wrote:
> 
> Paul, that is a good argument not to use it that way all the time, and 
> perhaps not on BBC headlines, but there are probably a lot of situations 
> to be able to lowercase the letters first, before capitalizing them.
> 
> For instance, I  often have to deal with a system that stores all of its 
> data in ALL CAPS, and I use VBscript on the server right now to make 
> them lowercase and then Initial Capped. It does mess up a few things 
> like initialisms, but it is more acceptable than the alternative, at 
> least for me with that (limited) particular usage.
> 
> If I understand correctly, what Jens proposed would not actually change 
> the way "capitalize" would work on its own (it would still not affect 
> letters that did not begin a word whn not combined with a different key 
> word), but would only have the side effect you described when combined 
> with "lowercase" in the same text transformation. It does seem like a 
> good option to me. Perhaps a new key word ("upperandlowercase") would be 
> easier to implement than combining two there?
> 
> 
> On Oct 7, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Paul Nelson (ATC) wrote:
> 
>>
>> I believe that we are better off doing as what the current specification
>> gives in this regards.
>>
>> capitalize - Puts the first character of each word in uppercase; other
>> characters are unaffected
>>
>> A stylesheet would have to be verified against every usage if the
>> proposal is used ([lowercase || capitalize])
>>
>> The following are headlines from
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/default.stm.
>> "Poland debate aired on UK radio" -> "Poland Debate Aired On Uk Radio"
>> "US conciliatory over missile plan" -> "Us Conciliatory Over Missile
>> Plan"
>> "Barclays drops ABN Amro offer" -> Barclays Drops Abn Ambro Offer"
>>
>>
>> I can think of places where there are advantages to the proposal, I
>> believe there are too many common uses of capitalized text that would be
>> converted incorrectly.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jens Meiert
>> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:28 AM
>> To: www-style@w3.org
>> Subject: Proposal: "text-transform" property revision
>>
>>
>> Dear Working Group,
>>
>>
>> I may suggest again what I proposed almost three years ago [1], to
>> slightly modify the "text-transform" property [2] (or its allowed value
>> combinations, respectively):
>>
>>   uppercase | [lowercase || capitalize] | none | inherit
>>
>> The above combination just intends to allow
>>
>>   text-transform: lowercase capitalize
>>
>> as well, a combination that enables grammar compliant "styling" of words
>> so that they become, sure, lowercase but also capitalized. Thus, authors
>> could e.g. (almost) "correct" the formatting of English headings, and it
>> would surely benefit many other languages as well.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>  Jens.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2004Feb/0507.html
>> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#caps-prop
>>
>> -- 
>> Jens Meiert
>> http://meiert.com/en/
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 9 October 2007 16:19:41 UTC