On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:41:50PM +0200, Mangled wrote:
> First, for these not really familiar with it:
> a) French capitalization simply follows sentence mode cap: only the
> first letter of the sentence is capped (and the first letter of proper
> nouns of course).
> b) In the case the title *is not* a verbal phrase and matches one of
> the two following schemes, we cap all the words of the scheme:
> "adjective noun"
> "definite article, [[adverb], adjective], noun" ([] denotes an
> optional element in the scheme).
>
> MLL (and others) propose to discard b), and just stick with sentence
> mode cap for every case (but artist intent).
>
> Arguments are:
> a - the "exceptions" are complex to understand
> b - ambiguous
> c - counter-intuitive
> d - silly
> e - most people don't use them, as they don't understand them
> f - there has been some discussion at wikipedia about them, so they
> are not really a consensus
Personally I much prefer standard sentence case because it's much simpler
[1] to use and is more consistent; capitalising half of the sentence and
not the other half looks really strange to me and I don't understand why
'le' makes words capitalised and not 'un'. Furthermore, I don't recall
seeing any new add release edits where the capitalisation was correct by
our current guidelines -- the vast majority seem to be either sentence case
or English-style most/every word capitalised. Also, because of its
complexity, we can't develop a guess case mode for it.
--Nikki, who isn't a native French speaker and also still doesn't
understand when to capitalise words in French.
1: Out of our 25 capitalisation standards, 19 are normal sentence case
(i.e. first letter and all proper nouns capitalised), 4 are every word
capitalised except for a short list of conjunctions etc. and just French
and German are complex enough to require the editor to understand the
language.
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