Re: [gentoo-pms] Title Case versus sentence case

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:34:23 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> This is one for the typography geeks. :)
> 
> Out of the 167 (1st to 4th level) section headings in PMS, 72 are
> using Title Case (i.e., important words are capitalised) and 38 are
> using sentence case (only first word capitalised). For the remaining
> 57 it makes no difference (e.g., because they consist of a single word
> only).
> 
> Clearly this is inconsistent. Should we change to:
> 
> - Sentence case. This is the style used in the wiki [1].
> - Title Case. This is what is used in the Devmanual. OTOH, section
>   headings containing technical terms like "The parent File" look a
>   little strange.
> - APA style [2]: Title Case at levels 1 and 2 (i.e., chapters and
>   sections) but sentence case at levels 3 and lower. This might
>   require the fewest changes, because all chapter headings are in
>   Title Case already, whereas sentence case seems to be preferred at
>   lower levels.

The standards I usually write to mandate inconsistency: \section and
\subsection are title case, and \paragraph is sentence case with no
full stop at the end...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh