From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcso2x02.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SRtYUNZ0dsX5hNnSPtZyFe4PJTeWvOkAWzmO1NsjGewHA@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:35:58 +0200")
>> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 18:43 UTC|newest]
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2011-09-19 13:18 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105834: Capitalize non-function content words in menu item strings Stefan Monnier
2011-09-19 14:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-19 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-19 14:19 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-19 14:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-19 18:43 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2011-09-19 16:07 ` Glenn Morris
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