[haiku-development] Re: Checking consistency of used strings
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:36:09 +0100
On 2009-12-01 at 15:33:37 [+0100], Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> -- Jorge G. Mare, on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:12:20 -0800:
> > Humdinger wrote:
> > > What about menus and menu items, buttons? Title case, right?
> > >
> >
> > If I had to be honest, from a linguistic point of view, it is really
> > strange that title case is used for all menu entries indistinctively.
> > When the menu entry is used to open a window, then it makes sense to
> > use
> > title case, as the menu label shows the title of the window that it
> > will
> > open. But for menu entries like "Paste Without Formatting," I have a
> > hard time justifying the use title case. I do realize that it would
> > be
> > easier to apply the title case across the board rather than
> > selectively,
> > so maybe that's the way to do. Maybe I am looking at this the wrong
> > way... :)
>
> No. I feel the same. I'd write "Forward without Attachments"
At least according to Wikipedia there is no such thing as an official title
case, even when only considering US English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case#Headings_and_publication_titles
I guess one simply has to pick one style and stick to it.
> So:
> * Last word: always cap.
> * 2 words: always cap.
> * 3+ words in menus/labels/buttons: 1st, last and nouns cap.
> to/from/without/etc lowercase.
Sounds weird. :-)
> * Normal English sentence style for radio/checkbox/dialog text. 4/5+
> words should be formulated as sentence.
CU, Ingo
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