From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proper English Title Capitalization
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 18:59:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8ws3856.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2015-05-25T12-05-49@devnull.Karl-Voit.at
Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>> Good idea, I can never memorize those goofy rules.
>
> "Those goofy rules" are much more complicated than
> I thought.
>
> I did some research: What is proper English
> title capitalization? [...]
The authoritative source is probably a grammar book
from the sturdy and meticulous islanders themselves,
which is Oxford in my experience.
Perhaps it is in this book?
@book{new-oxford-dictionary-for-scientific,
title = {The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors},
author = {Elizabeth Martin},
edition = {Second edition},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
year = 2009,
ISBN-13 = 9780199545155
}
But I don't think those web sources that you mention
are necessarily bad. They should get all or most of it
right. Only when they contradict each other a book has
the advantage to be a permanent source to point to as
the basis of the implementation.
> I was surprised that this quite handy function is
> not part of Emacs yet.
More or less. I think most often, the people who care
don't need it as they know the rules, and the people
who don't care don't look for it.
But I agree it is useful, so when you have perfected
the Elisp, send it to the ELPA or some of the other
repositories. You can then re-use parts of the
homepage text as documentation.
And, I appreciate the compliment [1] tho I suspect you
have already spent much more time on the issue than I.
But I'm glad I could help you get started.
[1] http://karl-voit.at/2015/05/25/elisp-title-capitalization/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-25 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-24 11:10 Proper English Title Capitalization Karl Voit
2015-05-24 21:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-25 10:13 ` Karl Voit
2015-05-25 10:36 ` Rasmus
2015-05-25 10:47 ` Karl Voit
2015-05-25 12:22 ` Karl Voit
2015-05-25 16:18 ` Rasmus
2015-05-26 15:38 ` Barry Fishman
2015-06-11 20:10 ` Karl Voit
2015-06-03 15:05 ` Karl Voit
2015-05-25 16:59 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2015-06-17 13:48 ` Karl Voit
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