From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: the English language, again (was: Re: title-case function) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 23:44:11 +0200 Message-ID: <86tvepiul0.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <86a7gjlbr3.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <87lg02xa95.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="262052"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Henk Pelgrom , Ingemar Holmgren , Greger Eriksson , Kiki Alfredsson To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 22 23:45:26 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hIgkg-00161V-FI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 23:45:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44711 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIgkf-0005Ql-GM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:45:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIgje-0004wO-7A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIgjd-0001pM-59 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=58460 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIgjc-0001oa-VG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:44:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hIgja-0014jK-Rn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 23:44:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:0uy2MSEbMvwsOWpiiE0yW/FENRI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120033 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe wrote: > That has very little to do with this > title-case function discussed here. > After all, you hardly ever write a title when > you're coding. Titles are for normal > documents. In the vast majority of cases, > normal documents are written in the native > language of the country you're in. "Normal documents" at the universities are written in English to a large extent, a trend that will probably grow to include more academic disciplines, and also more countries. Biblatex is one computer system that certainly involves titles. Here is one good example for the OP to try his function on: @book{star-wars-kotor-2, author = {John Jackson Miller and Dustin Weaver}, ISBN = {1-59307-761-0}, publisher = {DC}, title = {Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2}, year = 2007 } > Something that people should remember here is > that lots of Emacs users aren't professional > software engineers. I'm not and I have hardly > written any code in Emacs in the last year. > I've written a lot of other stuff though. But you are not saying only "professional" people should write their titles correctly? Besides there are many professional people who stink at what they do, and OTOH many people who aren't professional who are even worse ;) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573