To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=57408 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]