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[Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>]

I suggest we just use capitals at the start of the sentence for everything
except names of programs, which are capitalized. AFAIK most of the current
headers follow that style. Capitalizing every word looks silly.

eg:

Using the internet with Firefox
Maintaining your system

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Jamin Day
<jaminday+ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx<jaminday%2Bubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As I've been doing some editing just now, I have noticed there is a lot of
> variation in the way people are using capitals in titles. We need to decide
> on this so it is consistent throughout.
>
> Currently, (unless I have missed one) our title hierarchy has four (4)
> levels: Chapter; section; subsection and subsubsection.
>
> I propose the following:
>
> 1) Chapter Titles Start Each Word With A Capital
> 2) Sections Start Each Word With A Capital
>
> 3) Subsections only first word has capital
> 4) Subsubsections also only capitalize first word
>
> Happy to hear people's thoughts on this. Perhaps it should be more of a
> typographic/design decision based on how the headings will 'look' if we
> followed this system. I don't really mind how we do it, as long as we can
> work out something for consistency.
>
> JaminDay
>
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