Re: some string additions in GTK+

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:01 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 17:27 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> >> There were also a couple of printer setting labels that were not
>> >> marked for translation
>> >> previously, and have been added now:
>> >> Pages Per Sheet
>> >
>> > As a preposition with fewer than four characters,
>> > shouldn't "per" be lowercase?
>> >
>>
>> I had no idea the number of characters figures into this, but
>> lowercasing it certainly makes sense to me.
>
> See "Headings" here:
>
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/grammar.html.en
>
> The most relevant point is this:
>
>  All lowercase letters for conjunctions, articles, and
>  prepositions of less than four letters
>
> (I would add that you use lowercase letters for "to" when it's
> used to form an infinitive, such as "to run").  The exceptions
> to this rule are (a) prepositions used as part of a verb phrase,
> such as the "up" in "back up"; and (b) the first and last word
> of a string.  Anything else is capitalized.
>
> (Note that we had a discussion a while back about changing our
> title capitalization recommendations.  My recollection was that
> some of us would like to change from "fewer than four characters"
> to "four or fewer characters".  That would result in words like
> "from" and "with" being in lowercase.)

Interesting.
I have changed the string to "Pages per Sheet" now.