Yet Another Styleguide Question

[Vincent Untz]

Le vendredi 10 mars 2006 à 17:44 -0600, Rocco Stanzione a écrit :
> On Friday 10 March 2006 16:42, Santiago Roza wrote:
> > > If the first word in a sentence is a command, which is case-sensitive, or
> > > the name of a package with mixed case (think amaroK), should the first
> > > letter in that word be capitalized?
> >
> > no, never.  style should never come before correctness.
> 
> I sent this to this list by accident - it was meant for ubuntu-doc.  But let 
> me say that it's not a style vs. correctness issue.  Some apps/commands are 
> correctly spelled all lowercase, and a sentence correctly begins with a 
> capital letter.  My question (which may not be appropriate for this list -- 
> my apologies) is which kind of correctness is preferred in our documentation?

Here's what cairo people think about the issue:

"PS. Call it "cairo" or the "cairo graphics library", but try not to
ever call it "Cairo" unless writing it at the beginning of a sentence."

I believe this is the right thing to do.

Vincent

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