Re: completed gataxx doc

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 08:15 +0100, Joachim Noreiko
> wrote:
> > * Nitpick zone: the application tag is used in the
> > overall manual title but not in the subheadings,
> eg
> > '<title>Customizing Ataxx</title>'. However, I'm
> not
> > sure which way round is correct, as I've seen a
> bit of
> > both in our docs. Shaun, any thoughts on this? My
> gut
> > feeling is that the title is already emphasized
> (then
> > again, I'm not sure why the name of an app needs
> to be
> > italicized throughout anyway)
> 
> The primary reason I italicize application names is
> to
> set them apart as proper names.  Many applications
> are
> named with English words.  Look at this sentence:
> 
>   Terminal provides a tab feature that enables
> you...
> 
> Knowing, as we do, that "Terminal" is the name of
> the
> application, that sentence reads fine.  But if you
> don't read "Terminal" as a proper noun, as a name,
> then it sounds like we're talking like cave men.

Oh yeah... that makes sense (I knew there had to be a
reason :)

So it should be with the <application> tag in titles too?


		
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