- From: Henrik Hansen <henrikb4@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:20:51 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Message-ID: <dd12cf660810210620h2eb1ce7dkf1404ce741675031@mail.gmail.com>
Les Brown wrote: > My dictionaries say that capitalize means "put ALL the text in capitals" > but I guess it's too late to change the spec. A capitalized text is where the first letter in every word is uppercase, like this: The Quick Brown Fox Jumbed Over The Lazy Dog. > When I Worked with Printed Documents the Term We Used for Putting the > FIRST Character of Each Word in Uppercase was "initial caps." But the > Convention Was to Leave Minor Words, such as Prepositions, Articles, and > Latin Abbreviations like "i.e.", Entirely in Lowercase. I suspect that > this would be difficult to implement. I'd say that an abbreviation like i.e. or f.x. should be in uppercase, it makes more sense since an abbreviation are a shortend word, but if it's practiacally possible is another questiong. Could some typographer tell what the normal is to do? > > Also, if a future version of the spec introduces a "capitalize-all" text > transformation, what should happen to camel-case text like "WebKit"? Now this raises an even bigger question. <span style="text-transform:lowercase"> TeX is a typesetting program made by Donald Knuth. <span style="text-transform:capitalize"> Few people write in raw TeX, most do it in LaTeX </span> </span> What will this render as? tex is a typesetting program made by donald knuth. Few People Write In Raw Te?, Most Do It In La?e? What is the right way? -- Hilsen Henrik Enggaard Hansen
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