Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:07:47 +0200 From: Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes@daemon.li> To: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: headinlines firstletter capitalized Message-ID: <20031015190747.GA462@jenny.daemon.li> In-Reply-To: <20031015130143.GA9230@unixpages.org> References: <20031014130923.GA333@jenny.daemon.li> <20031014131702.GM32124@submonkey.net> <20031015130143.GA9230@unixpages.org>
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Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> wrote: > 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: > > > 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. > > [quote of chicago style guide] > > We should be using this universally, IMO. > 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 :-) my first opinion was to keep the headlines as they are in the original content, which is in most cases only a small difference. but after some more reflection on this topic i think we should not start making exceptions in style. we do have strict/well defined rules for how to have the content look and i think this should apply to _all_ the content we have, without exception. yes, the chicago style says we should keep it the way it is in the original document but i think that creates a style conflict on the press page. have a look at some of the older entries, there are some with capitals for all letters. For me it is a matter of consistency, for example we always have the .X in versions written in capitals, but some of the headlines have it written in small letters - i do not think this looks good. greets, josef -- www: http://www.daemon.li nic-hdl: JER1080312-NICAT BSD in AT: www.bsdcode.at "Make World - Not War!"
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