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Re: [platform-doc-dev] Capitalization
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I do not think we should capitalize "View", "Menu" etc. In the UI, we
generally do not capitalize such terms except where dictated by menu and
title casing rules).
E.g. see the Perspectives pref page.
Also, the title of the view is just e.g. "Tasks". Adding a capitalized
"View" next to it in the doc suggests that the name shown in the UI is
"Tasks View".
The Nick human
Kevin McGuire/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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It would be good to have a style guide with these points captured. It
doesn't have to be extensive, just a place to keep such decisions where
people can refer back to them.
I actually don't know if it should be "Tasks View" or "Tasks view", but
I'm happy with you just picking one since it means we can achieve some
consistency.
John Arthorne/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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Another area where there is inconsistency is in capitalization. Most
section titles in the table of contents and headings within pages are
sentence case, but some aren't. I've been converting everything to
sentence casing wherever I've seen inconsistencies, but I wanted to make
sure we agree on it.
A much trickier case is proper nouns. I believe things like "Tasks View",
"File Menu", and "Export Wizard" are all proper nouns, and as such both
words should always be capitalized. The documentation more commonly uses
"Tasks view", "File menu", and "Export wizard", but I think this is not
correct. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but unless I hear otherwise I'll
correct these problems where I see them.
