hig formatting

[seele@obso1337.org]

Haha, well Ill tell you how I would do it, but capitalization and
punctuation standards have been a hot topic on the SIGCHI list for the
past few weeks :)

IMO:

Lists should be a collection of statements in sentence capitalization with
no punctuation.  If an item requires more than one statement (eg: two
sentences or complete thoughts) it could probably be broken in to two
items.

The main lists in the HIG are collections of guidelines which should be
short, concise, and a single thought.  If you find that an item needs to
be several sentences and you cant break it down in to more than one item,
maybe it should be a paragraph and not a guideline (since it requires so
much explanation).

Lists are more easily scanned if they contain statements instead of
complete sentences full of filler.

> seele at obso1337.org wrote:
>> do lists have punctuation?
>>
>> (eg:
>> * This is a list
>> vs.
>> * This is a list.)
>>
>> most of the guidelines are written in sentence-case statement format
>
> I trust the advice of a native speaker. So Celeste, what's the way it
> *should* be??
>
> /el
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