Re: Capitalization - current trends?

Subject: Re: Capitalization - current trends?
From: Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:22:52 -0800 (PST)

In article ORG -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com, stephen -dot- anders -at- degree2 -dot- com ("Stephen Anders") writes:
>In my company, the marketing and company ID people have put this in the
>style guide:
>
>"Never use capitals on any work except at the beginning of sentences and
>headings,
>unless it is a proper noun."
>
>Thus I cannot use the usual 'Title Case' for books, chapters, figures and
>tables. One problem with this is that cross references get much harder to
>see.
>

I agree that this is bad news for cross-references. Even with
a "For more information, see" lead-in, not having init caps
for titles is awkward (and the same for button and menu option
names, imho).

Are you sure Marketing wasn't just trying to prevent the rampant
capitalization that is a hallmark of Marketing material? Have
you explained your preference in terms of readability for cross-
references?


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