Re: Styleguide v0.5

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Kevin Breit wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 12:35, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
>
> > Kevin Breit wrote:
> > > All titles
> > > should be capitalized except for articles.
> >
> >
> > This conflicts with the gdp style guide. Please see my previous message
> > to the list!
> *insert Kevin doing much swearing here*  So I looked at an O'Reilly book
> and they use capital letters.  I have NEVER seen a book say "This is a
> title of a chapter" and I find it obnoxious.  But because it's a
> "standard", I'll go along with it.



??
according to gdp-styleguide this would be:

This Is a Title of a Chapter.

and opening a O'Reilly book (Docbook. The Definite Guide) and look at a 
chapter title I see:


Getting Started with SGML/XML

and `with' is not an article.


> > <graphic
> > >   format=\"png\" fileref=\""filename"\" srccredit=\"Kevin Breit\">
> >
> >
> > We should be using mediaobjects rather than graphics! See the gnome2 
> > style guide!
> Yes I know.  I gotta update my .emacs file to reflect this.  It's a
> matter of laziness.

but the styleguide should relect mediaobjects!


Andreas

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