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| From: | Juri Linkov |
| Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105834: Capitalize non-function content words in menu item strings. |
| Date: | Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:43:57 +0300 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> I presume all apps do it because according to English grammar >> function (grammatical) words in titles must be lower case >> and content (lexical) words must be capitalized. > > Where is that rule written? (And I pray the answer is not Strunk & > White's "Elements of Style"...) In the thread referenced by Glenn in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00681.html you are right that it is language dependent. I looked at different translations of menus in other GUI apps, and only English titles are capitalized.
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