Re: [Usability] HIG capitalization nitpick

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gmail com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 18:02 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On 16 Jun 2005, at 16:07, John Spray wrote:
> >
> > At [1], the message "Close without Saving" is used.  However, at  
> > [2] it
> > is said that only prepositions of three or fewer letters are to be  
> > left
> > uncapitalised in header capitalization.  So shouldn't "without" be
> > "Without"?
> 
> Yes and no :)  We've had that pointed out before, but IIRC the docs  
> team themselves said they preferred 'without' in this case.  Rules  
> are made to be broken I guess...

Actually, my original statement was that we should recommend against
capitalizing 'without', based solely on the recommendation of CMS.
But I also recommended not capitalizing in practice until the GDSG
was actually changed to recommend capitalizing.

Pat Costello then came up with a slew of references from various
style guides which do recommend capitalizing long prepositions,
and the general consensus (between me and Pat, anyway) was that
we should capitalize 'Without'.

Here's the thread:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2005-February/msg00002.html

--
Shaun