Bug 58029
| Summary: | [patch] news/press: correct capitalization of headlines | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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I think you'll also find, in the Chicago Manual of Style, the following rule: "When quoting another author, or referencing a work, keep the existing punctuation and capitalization unless it is gratuitously wrong (in which case [sic] should be added)." Since these are all links to external articles, they should be left unchanged. Colin Percival Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > I think you'll also find, in the Chicago Manual of Style, the following > rule: "When quoting another author, or referencing a work, keep the > existing punctuation and capitalization unless it is gratuitously wrong (in > which case [sic] should be added)." > Since these are all links to external articles, they should be left > unchanged. this is why i asked in an above mail, whether i should keep it the way it was in the original document or fix it to apply these rules. ceri, did i misunderstand your email? -josef -- www: http://www.daemon.li nic-hdl: JER1080312-NICAT BSD in AT: www.bsdcode.at "Make World - Not War!" At 00:08 15/10/2003 +0200, Josef El-Rayes wrote: >this is why i asked in an above mail, whether i should keep it the way >it was in the original document or fix it to apply these rules. I didn't see the earlier email -- I was just looking at the PR. Wow. That's wierd. Ok, I retract my earlier remark... but I still think that changing the capitalization of someone else's title is *wrong*. Colin Percival PS. My mail server doesn't like "j.el-rayes@daemon.li"; but I assume you're reading www@ anyway. State Changed From-To: open->closed I, the originator, state that this one can be closed. |
www/en/news/press.xml: according to the "Chicago Manual of Style" (thanks ceri) i noticed the following rules for headlines: the first and last words and all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinating conjunctions (if, because, as, that, etc.) are capitalized. Articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or for, nor), and prepositions, regardless of length, are lowercased unless they are the first or last word of the title or subtitle. The to in infinitives is also lowercased. i corrected all the headlines that did not apply to the above rules. i checked them 3x, i should not have missed one, but as i am not 100% certain of the english grammar i may have missed one or two words. i also exchanged "open-source" with "open source" as o'reilly defines it, on its word list.