From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 06:01:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86EAA16A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3228E43FBD for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HMS005WQUUW95@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-www@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:01:45 +0200 (MEST) Received: from relay.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:01:43 +0200 (MEST) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (postfix@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.92]) h9FD1hsU009290; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:01:43 +0200 (MEST) Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5A87E1C; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:01:43 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:01:43 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <20031014131702.GM32124@submonkey.net> To: Ceri Davies Message-id: <20031015130143.GA9230@unixpages.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary="n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <20031014130923.GA333@jenny.daemon.li> <20031014131702.GM32124@submonkey.net> cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: headinlines firstletter capitalized X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:01:48 -0000 --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:17:02PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:09:23PM +0200, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > > hi! > >=20 > > i was wondering whether press article's headlines should have > > capatalized first letters of each word or should it be the way it is > > capatalized on the articles headline. >=20 > Here's what the _Chicago Manual of Style_ says about capitalizing quoted > titles (headline style): >=20 > 7.127 In regular title capitalization, also known as headline style, > 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. Long titles of works > published in earlier centuries may retain the original > capitalization, except that any word in full capitals should > carry only an initial capital. No word in a quoted title > should ever be set in full capitals, regardless of how it > appears on the title page of the book itself, unless it is an > acronym, such as WAC, UNICEF, or FORTRAN. >=20 > We should be using this universally, IMO. >=20 I don't think we should do that. We would have different headlines than the original article, which is not good. Quote the Manual of Style articles to the article authors instead :-) Colin Parcival already quoted the according excerpt from the Manual of style in another thread too. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/jUU3bHYXjKDtmC0RAj66AJ9u7K85pCO7G5H9va7sZcTNpWj71ACgot+t 9NE1d728D4LdiuRSYjWdGbc= =hb4i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1--