Hi! MLL recently opened-up the can of worms again :p, so I guess it's a good time to sort it out. It was a bit messy and I guess I wasn't specially kind myself, given I first thought MLL was simply trying to override styleguide to his own tastes, which he definitely wasn't. No hard feelings MLL? ;)
So, I'm taking on the hassle to try to sum up here what has been said, and what could be done. First, for these not really familiar with it: a) French capitalization simply follows sentence mode cap: only the first letter of the sentence is capped (and the first letter of proper nouns of course). b) In the case the title *is not* a verbal phrase and matches one of the two following schemes, we cap all the words of the scheme: "adjective noun" "definite article, [[adverb], adjective], noun" ([] denotes an optional element in the scheme). MLL (and others) propose to discard b), and just stick with sentence mode cap for every case (but artist intent). Arguments are: a - the "exceptions" are complex to understand b - ambiguous c - counter-intuitive d - silly e - most people don't use them, as they don't understand them f - there has been some discussion at wikipedia about them, so they are not really a consensus It's a known fact I feel strongly again that removal proposition :D, so I won't state my arguments right now, but rather wait and give a chance to MLL (or others) to precise their point more specifically if I didn't sum it properly. Regards, - Olivier (a.k.a. dmppanda) _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
