Re: Titlecasing words starting with numeric glyphs and period as word separator

From: Mark Davis ☕ (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Wed Mar 02 2011 - 14:13:36 CST

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    I have a typo in the following. Should have written:

    l’histoire du Québec => L’histoire du Québec

    Mark

    *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*

    On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:01, Mark Davis ☕ <mark@macchiato.com> wrote:

    > I agree with Asmus that probably the best choice for CSS in lieu of
    > language-specific information would be a "sentence-case", which modifies the
    > case of the 'first' character of the first word, but leaves the rest of the
    > word and the rest of text alone. What amounts to the 'first character of the
    > first word' needs a bit more discussion.
    >
    > the Dodgers lose => the Dodgers lose
    > 49ers win // leave alone
    > diSilva in finals => DiSilva in finals // not Disilva
    > l’histoire du Québec => l’histoire du Québec
    >
    > Mark
    >
    > *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
    >
    >
    >
    > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 16:51, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
    >
    >> On 3/1/2011 4:28 PM, Shawn Steele wrote:
    >>
    >> I didn’t mean you were an English teacher, but my mother was J
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> I meant that I’ve seen “title casing” being used by computer applications
    >> for CamelCasing (then remove the spaces). I’m not suggesting that’s right,
    >> but it’s clearly a different use case than “Titles of Books on Amazon.com”.
    >>
    >>
    >> For a CSS feature it needs to have some generic usability. The problem is
    >> that "uppercasing the first letter of every word without exception" does not
    >> have a strong use case - there are simply too few cases where you can use it
    >> - for example, you can not use in styling English titles or headings (nor in
    >> many other languages, there for other reasons, to wit: they don't use "title
    >> case" conventions at all).
    >>
    >> If you apply it to the first word only, you get sentence casing, which
    >> does have a reasonably widespread use case, and 99.x% of all sentences don't
    >> start with a word that needs exceptional "title" casing.
    >>
    >> That, to me would seem to be the best use case you can squeeze of this.
    >>
    >> A./
    >>
    >>
    >

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