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Issue #:|57408
Summary:|US LAWYERS/ATTYS NEED: Big & Little Caps & Initial
|Caps.
Component:|Word processor
Version:|1.0.0
Platform:|All
URL:|
OS/Version:|All
Status:|UNCONFIRMED
Status whiteboard:|
Keywords:|
Resolution:|
Issue type:|PATCH
Priority:|P1
Subcomponent:|printing
Assigned to:|mru
Reported by:|nuncus
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 5 13:35:07 -0800
2005 -------
US LAWYERS/ATTORNEYS NEED: Big & Little Caps & Initial Caps.
Your US lawyers (attorneys) and all writers of legal
documents that will be filed in federal, state, and local
courts MUST HAVE the following additions to "Case:"
Small Caps (NOT "ALL CAPS")
(sometimes referred to incorrectly as "Big & Little Caps")
Initial Caps
These two additional case choices need to appear
on the OOo Writer context menu just below the
presently included Upper Case and Lower Case font
styles/choices.
REASON: In the US, courts require documents typed to
specification, particularly as to legal citation of
suthorities format. The formatting system for legal
documents is contained in a book entitled "A
Uniform System of Citation." This book is commonly
referred to among lawyers as "The Blue Book."
For legal citations to certain types of controlling
authority, such as treatises and local statutory codes,
Small Cap and Intial Cap formatting is REQUIRED. If the
formatting is not adhered to, the court filing will be
rejected out of hand.
Please include Small Caps and Initial Caps in your very
earliest "Patch." Until we have those two case formattings,
I'm afraid, we will be unable to use OOo to produce our
legal documents. "Legal documents," for lawyers generally
includes any and all letters that lawyers write that make
references to citations of legal authority.
Lawyers/Attorneys are generally the largest descrete
user base for word processors that contain the capability
to produce court compliant legal documents.
It is our understanding that there are other countries
whose legal systems also require the use of Small Caps
and Initial Caps on a regular basis; in addition, most
US government document work also requires these two cases
on a regular basis.
Point of Clarification: There seems to be some confusion among
the folks who have previously raised this issue as to what a "small
cap" case is -- we note that one of the previous commentors seemed
to not know the difference between "Small Caps" and "ALL CAPS in
a smaller font."
An example of "Small Caps" is as follows:
The word
The "T" is capitalized and appears in capital case.
The "h" is capitalized but is of the same height as the lower case.
The "e" is capitalized but is of the same height as the lower case.
The "W" is capitalized and appears in capital case.
The "o" is capitalized but is of the same height as the lower case.
The "r" is capitalized but is of the same height as the lower case.
The "d" is capitalized but is of the same height as the lower case.
The printer's marks that one uses to designate small caps to the printer,
if the small caps are not already present in the OOo document would be
"The word" with a double underline beneath it.
"Initial Caps" would be a title or caption on a court document, governed
by a style or "code" as follows:
This Is a Title Caption Appearing on Appellant's Responsive
Law Brief to The Appellee's Motion to Dismiss Filed on 10/05/05
Thank you,
Nuncus
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