[mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2006/8/8, Mangled <viapanda at gmail.com>:
> 2006/8/8, MLL <webmll at laposte.net>:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: musicbrainz-style-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org
> > > [mailto:musicbrainz-style-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org] On
> > > Behalf Of Mangled
> > > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 9:59 PM
> > > To: MusicBrainz style discussion
> > > Subject: Re: [mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French
> > > capitalization rules)
> > >
> > > Can we start with reaching a consensus out of these two questions:
> > >
> > > > > (i) should MB try to follow common typographic usage, as used for
> > > > > books? Or should it not, as MB is not about litterature
> > > (argument by
> > > > > bogdan)
> > > > > (ii) if MB is to follow/choose a *decent* (decent according to
> > > > > *french typographic conventions*) capitalization method,
> > > is it even
> > > > > manageable? (argument by nikki)
> > > > >
> >
> > Objection, your Honor (should the h be in caps ? :P ). In the real world,
> > there is no common typographic usage, as discussed before. So the proposal
> > is biased.
> >
>
> Please, don't honor your french nationality by complicating this more.
> Copying the mail from the 3rd:
>
> "(a) there *are* typographic *conventions* used in the *publishing
> industry* specifying how to capitalize titles
> (b) while these conventions are not a *consensus*, and while
> publishers (eg: typographers working for publishers) tend to each
> prefer their own way to capitalize, I don't recall *anybody* in the
> industry *seriously* thinking about sentence mode capitalization as
> the way to go
> (c) we are no longer (at least since 50 messages) talking about what
> is the proper way to capitalize titles in french, and I don't think
> there's a point arguing about this (as nobody here is qualified to
> decide about that)"
>
> Now, can we move ahead and needle these two questions (i) and (ii)? :P
>
> Regards,
>
> - Olivier

I agree. I guess you will have to decide without me, though. I am
about to leave on holidays :-)

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria