[mb-users] re: capitalization or not

[Ben]

I'm curious why the apparently official way of doing things ignores  
artist intent? It's always seemed to me that artist intent should  
trump all if you're making a collection of artist's works, or else  
you'll loose information. But I can see I'm in the vast minority, and  
I don't understand why...?

On Aug 31, 2006, at 7:44 PM, Jan van Thiel wrote:

> On 9/1/06, Mangled <viapanda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The initial post was co-signed by *Joan* and *me* as we wanted a
>> *common*, *flameless*, and *neutral* first-post question about an
>> issue.
>> Though:
>> - Joan did at that time thought the small r was the way to go.
>> - Joan thought the generic rule should be small cap
>> - I did at that time thought the Big R was the way to go.
>> - I don't have an opinion about the generic case, as I'm a non- 
>> native english
>>
>> Now (and I'm sure Joan would agree):
>> We both want a sane and *shared* resolution, and we'll *both* comply
>> to it, even if it goes against our initial thought.
>
> The reason I asked a question is because I'm Dutch; we apparently use
> some different capitalization scheme. If the first word is 'missing'
> some letters, the following word is capitalised: e.g. "'n Vriend" (A
> Friend). That's why I thought this was used in English as well. I'll
> use whatever the outcome is; I don't care what will be used, as long
> as we agree on something ;)
>
> -- 
> Jan (zout)
>
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