[kde-doc-english]Re: GUI: Capitialization
Thomas Diehl
thd at kde.org
Thu Apr 4 10:36:05 CEST 2002
Am Donnerstag, 4. April 2002 10:16 schrieb Pablo de Vicente:
> > It would be an unimaginably vast task to convert all of KDE to another
> > style. Is there any usability or translation benefit to using book
> > title capitialization everywhere that I'm not aware of?
>
> As a matter of fact in the spanish team we have supressed book title
> capitalization everywhere in KDE, since KDE 2.1. We had a long discussion
> in our team and since book capitalization is incorrect in the spanish
> grammar except for book titles
In German it wouldn't be even correct for book titles. To my knowledge,
there is not even a proper German term for this kind of capitalization.
Therefore, we never discussed this, for German this was just a non-issue.
The KDE style guide can only be used for (US) English in this regard.
Thomas
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