-----Original Message----- From: lilypond-devel-bounces+james.lowe=datacore....@gnu.org on behalf of Valentin Villenave Sent: Sun 31/10/2010 22:12 To: Graham Percival Cc: re...@codereview.appspotmail.com; lilypond-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Clef support for cue notes (issue2726043) On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > In correct English, that word would be capitalized. However, most > people don't bother to write that well. So it's not normal to see > this capitalized correctly. :)
Interesting. Could you elaborate? -- If it's being used as a 'proper noun' it would be capitalised. But it seems the rules are slightly different for American English (which our Docs are in), here from wikipedia (so it must be true!).... "In English, the word following the colon is in lower case unless it is a proper noun or an acronym, or if it is normally capitalized for some other reason. However, in American English a colon may be followed either by a capital letter or by a lower-case letter, depending on usage; where direct speech follows, a capital letter is used; where an acronym or proper noun follows, a capital is used; otherwise, a lower-case letter is used. Some modern American style guides, including those published by the Associated Press and the Modern Language Association, prescribe capitalization where the colon is followed by an independent clause (i.e. a complete sentence). However, The Chicago Manual of Style requires capitalization only when the colon introduces two or more complete sentences." So either this is a proper noun or an independent clause. James PS It looks wrong to my eyes BTW (but I'm not American...or Canadian ;) ) _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
