On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:01 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 17:27 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> >> There were also a couple of printer setting labels that were not >> >> marked for translation >> >> previously, and have been added now: >> >> Pages Per Sheet >> > >> > As a preposition with fewer than four characters, >> > shouldn't "per" be lowercase? >> > >> >> I had no idea the number of characters figures into this, but >> lowercasing it certainly makes sense to me. > > See "Headings" here: > > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/grammar.html.en > > The most relevant point is this: > > All lowercase letters for conjunctions, articles, and > prepositions of less than four letters > > (I would add that you use lowercase letters for "to" when it's > used to form an infinitive, such as "to run"). The exceptions > to this rule are (a) prepositions used as part of a verb phrase, > such as the "up" in "back up"; and (b) the first and last word > of a string. Anything else is capitalized. > > (Note that we had a discussion a while back about changing our > title capitalization recommendations. My recollection was that > some of us would like to change from "fewer than four characters" > to "four or fewer characters". That would result in words like > "from" and "with" being in lowercase.)
Interesting. I have changed the string to "Pages per Sheet" now. _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
