Re: Capitalization Wars

On 12/19/2011 10:49 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:08 PM, fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>  wrote:
>> I have an issue filed on one of my specs for inconsistent capitalization, so
>> I
>> thought I'd post here and see whether there was any consensus on the correct
>> capitalization rules. :) :)
>>
>> Pubrules is no help because it requires one style for "Status of this
>> document"
>> and a different style for "Table of Contents". (Yay!)
>>
>> Options under consideration:
>>
>>   A. Titlecase Like This and This
>>   B. Sentencecase like this and this
>>   C. Titlecase for Top-Level Sections (<h2>), Sentencecase for lower-level
>> sections
>
> I use title-case for everything, unless there's a colon in the title
> like "Printing Counters: the ‘counter()’ and ‘counters()’ functions" -
> then it's lower-case after the colon.  Seems to look good to me.

That's probably because you're working with me. :) I was raised with
titlecase; and I drop it after the colon because I consistently put
the code names after a colon.

~fantasai

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