Heading styles

[Jonathan Roberts]

Hi,

sorry I'm sending *so* many mails to the list!

Possible addition to the style guidelines would be that
headings/titles should either be *all* capitalized, i.e. Cool Things
To Do With Fedora, or first capital and then all lower case, i.e. Cool
things to do with Fedora. Some documents currently have headings which
look like "Cool Things To Do with Fedora" - the random use of
capitals/lowercase is ugly, imho!

Yours,

Jon

[Dimitris Glezos]

O/H Jonathan Roberts έγραψε:
> Hi,
>
> sorry I'm sending *so* many mails to the list!
>
> Possible addition to the style guidelines would be that
> headings/titles should either be *all* capitalized, i.e. Cool Things
> To Do With Fedora, or first capital and then all lower case, i.e. Cool
> things to do with Fedora. Some documents currently have headings which
> look like "Cool Things To Do with Fedora" - the random use of
> capitals/lowercase is ugly, imho!

FWIW, in translating to greek we decided to have only the first letter capital.

But it seems it is normal in english to have many caps, right? Newspapers,
research papers etc use it often. Is there any other reason besides make the
sentence sound more important (pompous)?

-d

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:19 +0100, Dimitris Glezos wrote:
> O/H Jonathan Roberts έγραψε:
> > Hi,
> >
> > sorry I'm sending *so* many mails to the list!
> >
> > Possible addition to the style guidelines would be that
> > headings/titles should either be *all* capitalized, i.e. Cool Things
> > To Do With Fedora, or first capital and then all lower case, i.e. Cool
> > things to do with Fedora. Some documents currently have headings which
> > look like "Cool Things To Do with Fedora" - the random use of
> > capitals/lowercase is ugly, imho!
>
> FWIW, in translating to greek we decided to have only the first letter capital.
>
> But it seems it is normal in english to have many caps, right? Newspapers,
> research papers etc use it often. Is there any other reason besides make the
> sentence sound more important (pompous)?

I can't speak to other languages, but in many English style guides,
words are capitalized unless they are internal articles, short
prepositions, or conjunctions.  First words are always capitalized:

The Prime Minister Is in the Parliament Building Across Town
  Building a Better Mousetrap
  A Briefing on Wild Animals and Their Habitats

[Jonathan Roberts]

> I can't speak to other languages, but in many English style guides,
> words are capitalized unless they are internal articles, short
> prepositions, or conjunctions.  First words are always capitalized:
>
> The Prime Minister Is in the Parliament Building Across Town
>   Building a Better Mousetrap
>   A Briefing on Wild Animals and Their Habitats

Sure thing: thanks for clarifying :D

Jon

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 15:54 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > I can't speak to other languages, but in many English style guides,
> > words are capitalized unless they are internal articles, short
> > prepositions, or conjunctions.  First words are always capitalized:
> >
> > The Prime Minister Is in the Parliament Building Across Town
> >   Building a Better Mousetrap
> >   A Briefing on Wild Animals and Their Habitats
>
> Sure thing: thanks for clarifying :D

Well, thanks for the question. :-)  I added this to the Style Guide.