From: "Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: title-case function
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 23:25:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bm0zxzgc.fsf@paulwrankin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E6A78B09-62AF-4874-9D7F-36CEDEB8A75B@gmail.com>
On Sun, Apr 21 2019, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>> This seems a little redundant to me if title case is an English-only
>> thing.
>
> *That*, we don't know.
I'm pretty sure title case is an English-only thing. I did some cursory
digging and found this on the holy Wikipedia:
> In other languages, such as the Romance languages, only the first word
> and proper names are capitalized.[1]
Seems like title case comes in two flavours: English and other.
> And even if it's an English only thing, it's better to identify the
> thing the strings have in common. They are not just arbitrary short
> strings.
Within this scope, they're just all minor words. Apart from that, I'd
say they are just arbitrary strings... Emacs doesn't care what language
strings it's upcasing or downcasing.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization#Titles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-21 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-21 3:56 title-case function Paul W. Rankin
2019-04-21 5:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 6:40 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-04-21 10:31 ` `if' in Elisp (was: Re: title-case function) Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 12:34 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-21 14:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 5:57 ` title-case function Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-21 6:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 6:45 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-04-21 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-21 5:57 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-04-21 12:45 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-04-21 12:59 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-04-21 13:25 ` Paul W. Rankin [this message]
2019-04-21 13:58 ` the English language part 2 (was: Re: title-case function) Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 14:23 ` the English language part 2 Ralph Seichter
2019-04-21 14:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 14:42 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-21 15:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 15:21 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-22 4:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-04-22 7:55 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-04-22 21:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-22 21:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-25 22:58 ` Europe in 1648 (was: Re: the English language part 2) Emanuel Berg
2019-04-26 13:40 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-27 21:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-29 3:26 ` Europe in 1648 Van L
2019-04-21 15:22 ` the English language part 2 Drew Adams
2019-04-21 15:38 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-04-21 16:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 13:45 ` title-case function Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 13:37 ` the English language, again (was: Re: title-case function) Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 13:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-22 16:41 ` Robert Thorpe
2019-04-22 21:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-23 2:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-24 11:56 ` the English language, again Van L
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