On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:24:16 -0400 "Igor Tandetnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> > Yes - whatever happened to Title Case ? > > Still wouldn't work so well with, say, "The Definitive Guide To Sqlite" Yes, Igor has a very good point. The problem is the stupidity of English typesetting rules. Many have tried to code title case for English and few have succeeded. The problem is that "unimportant" words are to be left all lowercase. "Unimportant" means some conjunctions, most prepositions, and the articles a, an and the. While there is a short list of such words, there are additional exceptions. For example, if the title ends in "to" then "to" must be capitalized because the rule says to capitalize the first and last words regardless. There is also the problem of acronyms and abbreviations. And the first word following a colon is to be capitalized as well. Now, code can be written to accomplish most of the above without too much strain. But then you run into style manuals. Are you doing APA, Chicago, MLA, London Times, or whose style manual are you to follow? Every one of them has a slight variation on the rules. Title case in English is not trivial. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
