Do we have a style guide for Fedora Magazine? Should we?

Ryan Lerch rlerch at redhat.com
Fri Aug 1 19:26:12 UTC 2014


On 08/01/2014 03:13 PM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering if we should consider a brief style guide for Fedora 
> magazine?
>
> One item to cover on this would definitely be how to capitalize the 
> titles of our posts. Having this consistent is always a good thing.
>
> For the capitialization of posts, my vote is for sentence case. This 
> tends to be the most popular currently in online publications [1], 
> [2]. and in my honest opinion, it is not as harsh and shouty as the 
> alternative title case. Title case is also a lot harder to get 
> consistent, as many people have different ideas of what to capitalise.
>
> For example, the sentence case is simple, capitalize the first word, 
> and any proper nouns:
> Fedora 21 will feature "Solarized" color schemes in both the Terminal 
> and Gedit
>
> and the title case (depending on who is writing it) could be:
> Fedora 21 will Feature "Solarized" Color Schemes in Both The Terminal 
> and Gedit
> or
> Fedora 21 Will Feature "Solarized" Color Schemes in Both The Terminal 
> and Gedit
>
> cheers,
> ryanlerch
>
> [1] - http://www.theverge.com/
> [2] - http://lwn.net/

Fogot to add that i have also been not following my own personal 
sentence case rules lately in my rush to get posts out, but just went 
through and fixed them up.

cheers,
ryanlerch



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