From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105834: Capitalize non-function content words in menu item strings. Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:43:57 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87vcso2x02.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87hb48pqsr.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316465110 3432 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2011 20:45:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 19 22:45:05 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R5ki2-0004kT-0f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:44:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45861 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5ix0-0007gx-AL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48693) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5iwt-0007eQ-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5iwn-0007TB-Jt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]:60972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5iwn-0007Ss-7s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D136E809F; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850D5451C4B2; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:52:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:35:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.113.175.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144104 Archived-At: >> I presume all apps do it because according to English grammar >> function (grammatical) words in titles must be lower case >> and content (lexical) words must be capitalized. > > Where is that rule written? (And I pray the answer is not Strunk & > White's "Elements of Style"...) In the thread referenced by Glenn in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00681.html you are right that it is language dependent. I looked at different translations of menus in other GUI apps, and only English titles are capitalized.