Hi there! On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:07:28 +0100, Kalle Söderman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Luca Capello <l...@pca.it> wrote: >> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:46:07 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: >>> * broonie finds the rendering of people's names on planet very hard to read. >>> (above the individual posts) >>> * h01ger agrees with broonie - those used to be more readable >>> <Mithrandir> uppercasing people's names doesn't help. >>> <broonie> Yeah, uppercase plus fixed width font is probably the most of it. >>> <broonie> I hadn't been sure if it was just me or not. > > I'm working on a version without the huge amount of red, I agree that > it might "blind" the reader somewhat.
Thank you.
>> Please do not uppercase them, even if I am not on Planet I would be a
>> bit upset if my name would be fully uppercase, given that it is not how
>> I am called.
>
> This comments interest me quite at bit. Luca, what culture/language do
> you belong to? At least in Europe and USA it has been the norm to
> Small caps/Upper case the author name for several hundred years. I'm
> intrigued that there is a culture/language where this can be
> considered offensive. For someone interested in typography this is
> very interesting. Please reply off list.
Replying in-list, given your comments I guess I was not clear.
I am Italian, and we write names as Luca Capello, opposed to for example
French-speaking countries (at least I am aware of France and
Switzerland) where you write Luca CAPELLO.
My comment was referring to uppercasing the *whole* name (in LibreOffice
this is called "Capitals"), as it is now on Planet, not the first letter
("Title"). This is how I read the IRC log Holger posted (Holger, Mark
and Tollef cc:ed in case they want to comment).
> <http://www.little-blue-books.com/articles/wrapperStyles.html>
> Note the Caps on several of the covers.
I know the style above, which corresponds to LibreOffice "Title". I was
quite surprised that I could not find the similar command in LaTeX.
I hope my position is now clear :-)
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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