On 2009-12-01 at 20:34:11 [+0100], Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Capitalization is a linguistic concept, and linguistically this does > > not make sense. > > I'd have to agree here...arbitrarily having a completely different set of > capitalization rules for titles doesn't really make sense at best, and is > at worst confusing since it obfuscates the usual meaning capital letters > are used to convey. I can see how it wouldn't be much of a stretch when > coming from a German background where every single noun is capitalized > anyways, but in English there's no real practical reason to do this, > especially not when it's as random as "capitalize the first and last > word" and arbitrarily changes based on the length of the title. If asked like that, I can also not provide a reason for these weird capitalization rules. However, I still stumble over the fact that I found them intuitive. There must be something to it, if it's even in the Apple HIG... but again, I cannot come up with a good reason. Sometimes a good indication if something is nonsense. ;-) But sometimes also an indication that one is missing something crucial. Best regards, -Stephan